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whenever

UK/wəˈnɛvə//wəˈnɛvɚ/

whenever conjunction: at any time that.

Conjunction

whenever

  1. At any time that.
    • Visit whenever you want to.
    • I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show.
      As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!1987 December 21, Richard Nixon, Letters to Trump, Winning Team Publishing, published 2023, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10
  2. At the (single) time that, no matter when.
    • Tomorrow I'll get up whenever the sun rises.
  3. Every time that.
    • Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.
    • Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61
  4. Regardless of the time that.
    • Income must be reported in the period in which it is earned, whenever payment is actually received.
  5. (Ireland, US, nonstandard, regional) When.
    • Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.

Adverb

whenever

  1. (dated, interrogative) When ever: emphatic form of when.
    • Whenever will I find time to finish that jigsaw?
  2. (colloquial) At any time.
    • Feel free to visit whenever.

whenever meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

whenever in Hindi

whenever
जबकि jabki

whenever in Marathi

whenever
जेव्हा jevhā

whenever in Urdu

جب بھی, جب کبھی

whenever in Bengali

যখনই
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whenever in Malayalam
എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും, എന്നായാലും, ഏതുസമയത്തും
whenever in Kannada
ಯಾವಾಗಲೋ
whenever in Punjabi
ਜਦੋਂ ਵੀ
whenever in Gujarati
જ્યારે પણ
whenever in Odia
ଯେତେବେଳେ ବି, ଯେବେ ବି
whenever in Nepali
जब पनि
whenever in Arabic
مَتَى matā, مَتَى مَا matā mā, كُلَّمَا kullamā
whenever in Indonesian
setiap, kapan saja

Examples of whenever in a sentence

  • Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.
  • I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
  • The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.

All 40 example sentences with whenever

Origin of whenever

From Middle English whan evere, whanne ever, whanne evere, whener, when ever; equivalent to when + -ever.

Words formed from whenever

Words that rhyme with whenever

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Questions about whenever

What does whenever mean?
Whenever means at any time that.
What is whenever in Hindi?
Whenever in Hindi is जबकि (jabki). See Whenever meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is whenever?
Whenever can be a conjunction or an adverb.
How do you pronounce whenever?
Whenever is pronounced /wəˈnɛvə/ (UK).

Words near whenever in the dictionary

  1. whencesoe'er
  2. whencesoever
  3. whencever
  4. whenceward
  5. whene'er
  6. whenever
  7. whenever one turns around
  8. whenevs
  9. whenness
  10. whens
  11. whenso

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whenever (page history and authors); जबकि (Hindi) (page history and authors); जेव्हा (Marathi) (page history and authors); whenever (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whenever (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whenever (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whenever (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whenever (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whenever (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whenever (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whenever (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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