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# whatsoever

«whatsoever» in Mova's school dictionary: **At all; used after "no", "none" or "nothing" to make it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb; pronoun and determiner (formal, emphatic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) At all; used after "no", "none" or "nothing" to make it stronger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#m1)

2) (formal, old) Whatever; anything at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and stories: "I have no idea whatsoever" = I have no idea at all. It makes a negative stronger. Phrases: no ... whatsoever, nothing whatsoever, none whatsoever.

### examples

- I have no idea whatsoever where my shoe is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x1)
- There was nothing whatsoever in the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x2)
- He showed no interest whatsoever in football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x3)
- "Any questions?" "None whatsoever." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x4)
- There is no reason whatsoever to be scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x5)
- She had no money whatsoever left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x6)
- Right or left--backward or forward--where to go he could form no guess whatsoever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/#x7)

### note

Used after a noun with "no": "no chance whatsoever". It adds emphasis but no meaning. In maths: "no apples whatsoever" means zero.

### In the corpora

- [all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.193/)
- [Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.951/)
- [If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.609/)
- [And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.917/)
- [Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.266/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whatsoever» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whatsoever/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.