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Meaning of whenever | Babel Free

Conjunction CEFR B1 Frequent
wəˈnɛvə

Definitions

  1. At any time that.
  2. Whenever, as long as.
  3. At the (single) time that, no matter when.
  4. Every time that.
  5. Regardless of the time that.
  6. When.
    Ireland, US, nonstandard, regional

Equivalents

العربية حينما كلما متى مَتَى مَا
Deutsch immer wenn jedes Mal, wenn sooft wann auch immer wann immer wenn
Español cuando quiera cuando sea cuandoquier cuandoquiera siempre que siempre y cuando
Français à chaque fois que chaque fois que n'importe quand
Italiano in ogni momento ogni volta che
日本語 いつでも
Português quando sempre que toda vez que
Русский каждый раз когда́ бы ни

Examples

“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!”
“Tomorrow I'll get up whenever the sun rises.”
“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.”
“Income must be reported in the period in which it is earned, whenever payment is actually received.”
“Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

whenso where where'er where'n whereabove whereacross

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