Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Whole"

A: inteiro/todo
"She's read the whole book"
Ela leu o livro todo/inteiro

A: It means all of something, not just a piece.

Ex.
She ate a whole sandwich.
The whole car was stolen.

A: it means the entire time

A: wholeは「全部」の感じです。全部の一部はwholeです。

A: 考えば, you use "the whole X" when you want to say １つのものの全部.
And you use "all of X" when you want to say たくさんあるものの全部。（僕の日本語、通じるかどうか気になる…）

Here are some examples:

"How much would it cost to book the whole restaurant?"
This means you want to book it so that no one else can sit down and eat without your permission. You cannot say "...book the all restaurant."

"All the restaurants on this road are owned by the same person."
This means that there are many restaurants on this road, but they are owned by one person. You cannot say "Whole the restaurants..."

"I have read the whole book and found it quite interesting."
This means you have read the book from the beginning to the end. You cannot say "...the all book..."

"Out of all the books he gave me, this was the most interesting."
This means he gave you several books, but this was the most interesting one.

There are a few other usages of the word "whole", such as:
"on the whole" which means "overall"
"she made me whole again" which means that before you met her a part of you was missing, but she made you feel like a complete person again.

Hope this helps! 無意識に使う言葉なのでたぶん例外とかあるかもしれない。だからまだ聞きたいことがあれば聞いてください！

A: The whole village was to be dead by the explosion.

A: "This whole conversation is useless."

"I finished reading the whole book while in class."

"She ate the whole thing."

"Get one whole sheet of paper."

"You are my whole world."

A: You’re my favorite person in the whole entire world.

I couldn’t find a single shirt that fit in the whole entire store.

Out of my whole entire collection, this book is my favorite.

A: "Yesterday I ate a whole cake all by myself."

"There's a whole world of opportunities for you. Don't waste them."

A: Even though the teacher was sometimes late, as a whole, I think it was a good class.

A: You can say "all the people" but not "whole the people" since whole only focuses on one thing where people is more than one, so instead you can say "a whole person".

A: Whole” comes from “unhurt”, and means a single object that has not been subdivided.

“Entire” comes from “complete”, and means no part has been left out.

They are different when you are talking about collections of objects; the entire lot of cars, or the entire staff, since these are collections of distinct objects. You would say a whole loaf of bread or a whole person, since these are single objects not usually considered a collection of parts.

The expression “whole life” considers one’s life to be a single unit that has not been subdivided. An “entire life” means all the parts (years? experiences?) of a life. In this case either could be used.

A: "all" and "whole" both mean "entire/every part" but are used differently in some contexts.

"all" is more common when talking about a group of things. "all of them"

"whole" usually means one complete thing. "the whole thing"

I drank all of the water, there is none left.

Is that all it took? I thought it would be more work.

I worked all day!

I worked the whole day!

I ate the whole apple, it was delicious.

If you look at the world as a whole, you will see that we are all the same in some ways.

A: @Seven_Nation_Sheep: umm, don't really know how to explain it. I wouldn't consider both words as synonyms of each other. I will give you an example.

"I wish the whole world were like that."

"The whole truth might be painful, but at least you are not lying anymore."

Here you are referring to everything with "the whole".

If you tried to place general were whole is the sentences wouldn't make sense.


The general truth is not the whole truth. People don't even describe truth as general because there is no such thing as general truth. Or general world.

Now we could say "the truth in general" or "the world in general" but here we would state something that is true most of the time but not always.
Do I make sense?

A: I ate the whole cake.

The cake I ate was huge.

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A: When something “overwhelms your taste buds” the flavor is too strong and you just have to stop eating for a bit.

If you eat too much very sweet food you might start to get sick of the sweetness and need something else. This is an example of overwhelming your taste buds.

In this case, either the pizza or a topping on the pizza is good, but too much of them end up tasting bad. Mixing it in with the sauce helps get rid of the intense flavor of whatever this is talking about.

A: Whose. I'm just as guilty as anyone for confusing this with who's. They sound exactly the same.
Whose is possessive. Example. "Whose car is in the driveway?" You want to know, who owns the car.
Who's is a contraction of "who is" or "who has"

"whose/who's" (Ignore the w, it's silent)

A: Sí.

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