where
Part of speech: adv
conj
pron
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Germanic *hwaz
Proto-Indo-European *-r
Proto-Germanic *-r
Proto-Germanic *hwar
Proto-West Germanic *hwār
Old English hwǣr
Middle English wher
English where
From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (interrogative pronoun).
Inflected forms:
form: quhair
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhar
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quher
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhere
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhair
pos: conj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhar
pos: conj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quher
pos: conj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhere
pos: conj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhair
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhar
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quher
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhere
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quhair
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quhere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In, at or to what place.
pos: adv
tags: interrogative
not-comparable
examples: Where are you?
He asked where I grew up.
Where are you going?
Where you going?
I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
I hardly knew where I was going.
gloss: In what situation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Where would we be without our parents?
gloss: In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Stay where you are.
Go back where you came from.
Let's go where it's warmer.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
gloss: In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Please sit where you like.
Their job is to go where they are called.
gloss: In, at or to which.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
relative
examples: This is the place where we first met.
He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
That's the place where we went on holiday.
Here's a picture of York, where I was born.
Show me an example where it happened that way.
gloss: The place in, at or to which.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He lives within five miles of where he was born.
This is a photo of where I went on holiday.
Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
gloss: A situation or case in which.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: A function is where two variables are related.
gloss: In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.
Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
gloss: While on the contrary; although; whereas.
pos: conj
examples: And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
gloss: That.
pos: conj
tags: informal
examples: I read where they caught the guy.
gloss: What place.
pos: pron
tags: interrogative
examples: Where did you come from?
Where are you at?
Where are you off to?
Where you off to?
Do you know where you came from?
gloss: The place in which something happens.
pos: noun
examples: A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
Finding the nymph a sleepe in secret wheare
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ku
lang: Southern Altai
word: кайда
roman: kayda
lang: Amharic
word: የት
roman: yät
lang: Arabic
word: حَيْث
roman: ḥayṯ
lang: Armenian
word: որտեղ
roman: orteł
lang: Aromanian
word: iu
lang: Assamese
word: ক’ত
roman: köt
lang: Asturian
word: onde
lang: Asturian
word: au
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hara
lang: Azerbaijani
word: harada
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡайҙа
roman: qayźa
lang: Basque
word: non
lang: Belarusian
word: дзе
roman: dzje
lang: Belarusian
word: куды́
roman: kudý
lang: Belarusian
word: адку́ль
roman: adkúlʹ
lang: Bengali
word: কোথায়
roman: kōthaẏ
lang: Bengali
word: কই
roman: kôi
lang: Bhojpuri
word: कहाँ
roman: kahā̃
lang: Central Bikol
word: sain
lang: Central Bikol
word: hain
lang: Central Bikol
word: nasain
lang: Bulgarian
word: къде́
roman: kǎdé
lang: Bulgarian
word: откъде́
roman: otkǎdé
lang: Burmese
word: ဘယ်အရပ်မှာ
roman: bhaia.raphma
lang: Burmese
word: ပဇာ
roman: pa.ja
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: де
roman: de
lang: Catalan
word: on
lang: Chichewa
word: pati
lang: Chickasaw
word: katiyakta
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 邊度 /边度
roman: bin¹ dou⁶
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 邊處 /边处
lang: Chinese
word: нани
roman: nani
lang: Chinese
word: натар
roman: natar
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 底所
roman: diē-nē̤, dē̤-nē̤
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 哪仔
roman: nai-é
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 哪位
roman: nai-vi
lang: Chinese
word: 佗位
roman: tó-ūi
lang: Jin Chinese
word: 哪裡 /哪里
roman: na² le¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 哪裡 /哪里
roman: nǎli
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 哪兒 /哪儿
roman: nǎr
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 那裡 /那里
roman: nàli
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 那兒 /那儿
roman: nàr
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 啥地方
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 阿裡 /阿里
roman: ⁶gha-li
lang: Xiang Chinese
word: 哪裡 /哪里
roman: la³ li
lang: Chinook Jargon
word: qʰa
lang: Chinook Jargon
word: kah
lang: West Circassian
word: тыдэ
roman: tədɛ
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: qayerge
lang: Czech
word: kde
lang: Czech
word: odkud
lang: Dalmatian
word: jo
lang: Danish
word: hvor
lang: Dutch
word: waar
lang: Dutch
word: waarvan
lang: Dutch
word: waarvandaan
lang: Esperanto
word: kie
lang: Estonian
word: kus
lang: Faroese
word: hvar
lang: Faroese
word: har
lang: Finnish
word: jossa
lang: Finnish
word: missä
lang: Finnish
word: siellä missä
lang: French
word: où
lang: French
word: d'où
lang: Friulian
word: dulà
lang: Galician
word: onde
lang: Georgian
word: სადაც
roman: sadac
lang: Georgian
word: საიდანაც
roman: saidanac
lang: German
word: wo
lang: German
word: woher
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍈𐌰𐍂
roman: ƕar
lang: Greek
word: όπου
roman: ópou
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔνθα
roman: éntha
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἵνα
roman: hína
lang: Greenlandic
word: sumi
lang: Hebrew
word: אֵיפֹה
roman: eyfó
lang: Hebrew
word: הֵיכָן
roman: heykhan
lang: Hindi
word: कहाँ
roman: kahā̃
lang: Hindi
word: किधर
roman: kidhar
lang: Hungarian
word: ahol
lang: Icelandic
word: þar sem
lang: Ido
word: ube
lang: Indonesian
word: mana
lang: Indonesian
word: di mana
lang: Indonesian
word: ke mana
lang: Interlingua
word: ubi
lang: Italian
word: dove
lang: Japanese
word: どこ
roman: doko
lang: Japanese
word: そこ
roman: soko
lang: Javanese
word: endi
lang: Javanese
word: ing ngendi
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: undi
lang: Kalmyk
word: альд
roman: alʹd
lang: Kashubian
word: dze
lang: Kazakh
word: қайда
roman: qaida
lang: Khmer
word: អ៊ីណា
roman: ʔii naa
lang: Korean
word: 어디
roman: eodi
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kû der
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кайда
roman: kayda
lang: Lao
word: ທີ່ໃດ
roman: thī dai
lang: Lao
word: ໃດ
roman: dai
lang: Latgalian
word: kur
lang: Latgalian
word: kimā
lang: Latvian
word: kur
lang: Latvian
word: kamī
lang: Limburgish
word: wo
lang: Lithuanian
word: kur
lang: Macedonian
word: каде
roman: kade
lang: Malay
word: mana
lang: Malay
word: di mana
lang: Malay
word: ke mana
lang: Maltese
word: fejn
lang: Manchu
word: ᠠᠪᠠ
roman: aba
lang: Manchu
word: ᠠᡳ ᠪᠠ
roman: ai ba
lang: Māori
word: hea
lang: Māori
word: tea
lang: Western Mari
word: кышты
roman: kyšty
lang: Mirandese
word: adonde
lang: Central Sierra Miwok
word: myn·ným
lang: Mongolian
word: хаана
roman: xaana
lang: Mongolian
word: хаашаа
roman: xaašaa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hvor
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kor
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kvar
lang: Occitan
word: ont
lang: Persian
word: کُجَا
roman: kujā
lang: Dari
word: کُجَا
roman: kujā
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کُجا
roman: kojâ
lang: Polish
word: gdzie
lang: Polish
word: skąd
lang: Portuguese
word: onde
lang: Portuguese
word: aonde
lang: Romanian
word: unde
lang: Romanian
word: de unde
lang: Romansh
word: nua
lang: Russian
word: где
roman: gde
lang: Russian
word: отку́да
roman: otkúda
lang: Russian
word: куда́
roman: kudá
lang: Sardinian
word: àba
lang: Scots
word: whaur
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: far
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: где
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гдје
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gde
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gdje
lang: Slovak
word: kde
lang: Slovak
word: odkiaľ
lang: Slovene
word: kjé
lang: Somali
word: xaggee
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: źož
lang: Spanish
word: donde
lang: Spanish
word: dónde
lang: Swedish
word: där
lang: Swedish
word: var
lang: Tagalog
word: kung saan
lang: Tajik
word: куҷо
roman: kujo
lang: Tamil
word: எங்கே
roman: eṅkē
lang: Thai
word: ที่ไหน
roman: tîi-nǎi
lang: Thai
word: ไหน
roman: nǎi
lang: Tibetan
word: ག་པར
roman: ga par
lang: Tumbuka
word: nkhuni
lang: Turkish
word: nerede
lang: Turkmen
word: nirä
lang: Turkmen
word: nirede
lang: Ukrainian
word: де
roman: de
lang: Ukrainian
word: звідки́
roman: zvidký
lang: Ukrainian
word: куди
roman: kudy
lang: Urdu
word: جَہاں
roman: jahā̃
lang: Uzbek
word: qayerda
lang: Uzbek
word: qayda
lang: Vietnamese
word: đâu
lang: Volapük
word: kö
lang: Yiddish
word: וווּ
roman: vu
lang: Zealandic
word: daer-a
lang: Central Bikol
word: kun sain
lang: Czech
word: kde
lang: Danish
word: hvor
lang: Finnish
word: mikäli
lang: German
word: wo
lang: Macedonian
word: каде
roman: kade
lang: Malay
word: di mana
lang: Portuguese
word: onde
lang: Romanian
word: unde
lang: Scots
word: whaur
lang: Spanish
word: donde
lang: Swedish
word: var
lang: Tagalog
word: kung saan