La
mujer, cuyo hijo se va a la escuela con mi hija, es
gentil.
= The lady whose
son goes to school with my daughter
is very nice.
La ciudad, cuya torre vemos de lejos, es Berlín.
= The city whose
tower we see from far is Chicago.
= The city of which we see the tower from
far is Chicago.
Las ciudades, cuyas historias hemos estudiado, se encuentran
todas en Alemania.
= The cities whose
history we studied are all over Spain.
= The cities the history of which we studied
are all over Spain.
Los paises, cuyos gobiernos apreciamos, son democráticos.
= The countries whose
governments we appreciate are democracies.
= The countries the governments of which
we appreciate are democracies.
El hombre, cuya hija conozco, es mi vecino. = The man whose daughter
I know is my neighbour.
note
the specialty in these sentences: the gender and
number is defined by the referred object!
La mujer, cuya casa
fue destruida, es rubia.
El hombre, cuya casa
fue destruida, es rubio.
Las mujeres, cuya casa
fue destruida, son rubias.
Los hombres, cuya casa
fue destruida, son rubios.
Las mujeres, cuyas casas
fueron destruidas, son rubias.
Los hombres, cuyas casas
fueron destruidas, son rubios.
Las mujeres, cuyo jardín
fue destruido, son rubias.
Los hombres, cuyo jardín
fue destruido, son rubios.
Los hombres, cuyos jardínes
fueron destruidos, son rubios.
The woman whose
house was destroyed is blond.
The man whosehouse was destroyed is blond.
The women whose
houses was destroyed are blond.
The men whose
house was destroyed are blond. The women whose
houses were destroyed are blond.
The men, whose houses
were destroyed are blond.
The women whose
garden was destroyed are blond.
The men whose
garden was destroyed are blond.
The men whose gardens
were destroyed are blond.
The constructions with whose are in the spoken language
not that common. The same we can state for the Spanish
cuyo(s)/cuya(s).
Most likely the sentence would be constructed the following
way:
El jardín de la mujer
que es rubia ha sido destruido.
= The garden of the woman that / who is blond was destroyed.
You see we have endless possibilities - languages are
so rich!!!
cuyo,
cuyos, cuya, cuyas with a pronoun
Ésta
es la mujer, por cuyo hijo hemos organizado la fiesta.
= This
woman for whose son we have organised
the party. as
an alternative:
Ésta es la mujer,
por el hijo de la cual hemos organizado
la fiesta. = This woman for the son of which we have
organised the party.
Éste es el hombre,
a cuyo jefe hemos escrito una carta.
= This is the man
to whose boss we have written a letter. as an alternative:
Éste es el hombre,
al jefe del cual hemos escrito una carta. = This is the man to the boss of which
we have written a letter.
If reference is mad to alguno
or cada uno the construction
with cual is to be used. The Genitive construction with
cuyo, cuyas,
cuyos, cuyas
can't be used.
Habían muchos prográmas de gramática española
en el Internet, algunas de las cuales eran
útiles.
= There were many programs of Spanish grammar
in the net of which some were useful.
La ciudad tenía
muchos hoteles cada uno de los cuales tenía
habitaciones libres.
= The city had many hotels every one of
which had vacancies.
