Adverb
Where did you meet her?
Where did you hear that?
Where can I find books about gardening?
I don’t know where that came from.
Where is she taking us?
Do you know where we’re going?
Where does the story get interesting?
Where do the two candidates disagree on the issue?
Conjunction
Please stay where you are.
We sat down where there was some shade.
He put the note where she could easily see it.
He doesn’t know where he is going.
It doesn’t matter to me where we eat.
We could see the players very clearly from where we sat.
I know where their house is.
The town where we live is having an arts and crafts fair.
This is the room where the children sleep.
The store where we shop is closing.
Noun
we’ve decided on the when, but we still haven’t resolved the where for the party
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Recent Examples on the Web
Money poured in from as far away as Singapore, Taiwan and Australia, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in July against Wells Fargo, where Beasley had an attorney trust account to hold and disburse client money.
—Lizzie Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
Nonetheless, the Bengals will still need to build depth at certain positions and that’s where prospects from Saturday’s game have an opportunity to showcase their skills early ahead of the NFL Combine and/or their respective college pro days.
—Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
That’s the number of countries where Starbucks has its over 32,000 stores.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
That scale came with an awe factor, which, in a competitive industry where passengers increasingly had a choice of airlines, was a significant selling point.
—WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
Freeridge’s premiere season ended with an epic cliffhanger that raised many questions about where the plot will go if it’s picked up for another season.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 3 Feb. 2023
Each new year is a fresh opportunity to collectively redouble our efforts to make North Texas a place where every single neighbor has the access and opportunity to thrive.
—Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
Once known for dance videos, TikTok’s growing user rate has promoted the app from social media site to thriving marketplace — where a product can go from new offering to cult favorite in days, and drive thousands of dollars in sales.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2023
Of course he will be pulled back for one last job where things will go wrong.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
It was directed at outfielder Juan Soto, the Washington Nationals star who is suddenly and famously on the trading block and could be headed to you-know-where.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
Because if not, then democracy in America is going down in a painful heap like a guy kneed in the you-know-where.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
Because one important lesson of life is the where and when of things.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
The plot is a little messy and undisciplined, throwing into the second act a few wait-where-did-that-come-from incidents that may have been lifted from the book, but are baffling in the play.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2019
The next step is to get a development agreement with the orchestra that will outline the where and what.
—Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2018
Being ankle deep in mud, on a narrow trail traversing a precipitous hillside that was sloping down who-knew-how-far-or-where, and then trying to collect a specimen hidden just out of reach behind a tangle of greenery, would fray anyone’s nerves.
—The Economist, 17 May 2018
Yes, that’s Iron Man and Dr. Strange using their superpowers to help a young female consumer arrive safely at the home that has just been approved for a mortgage from you-know-where.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2018
The Fab Five pepper their subjects with compliments, I-know-where-you’re-coming-froms and hugs.
—Bonnie Wertheim, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
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“In a world, where LifeAlert has failed…..where the fallen simply can not..get…up” ❋ Unknown (2008)
My one was watching Leaving Las Vegas at the cinema with my sister — particularly the scene where Elizabeth Shue’s character is explaining to her customers what they can and can’t do… or more precisely *where*… ❋ Unknown (2007)
I don’t know where the spec ops soldier gets off on saying the Canadians don’t dismount on foot patrol..this is patently untrue,and if you have seen the combat videos,Canadas’ mantra has been/will be aggressive patrolling..always has been..where has this greener beaner been? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Resisting Reasonable Atrocity says we must speak out, but speaking out is hard to do and takes practice, and our church community should be a place where we can get such practice, where we can speak our minds and be taken seriously. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Just watch, Karr will not have done anything Eg false confession, however if anyone bothers to investigate where the last few deposits in his bank account came from it will be traced to sham corporation funded by republicans…..where? what NSA ruling? ❋ Unknown (2006)
I started out as a wee little brat in Los Altos for 6 years where we were accustomed to NON-white Christmases, then moved to Connecticut where we lived in quintessential New England suburbia..where we OFTEN had white Christmases. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Picking up her guitar, she removed herself to the far side of the glade, sitting down at an equal distance from where Kieran sat and ~where the wolf had vanished. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1990)
How different _this table_ from many others! where genteel sprightly conversations are shut out; _where_ such as cannot feast their senses on the genius of a _cook_, must rise unsatisfied. ❋ Susannah Minific Gunning (N/A)
For her, freedom meant the right to «go where she pleased»; but her love knew no _where_ but my father’s roof and her darling’s crib, nor anything so wrong as that right. ❋ Various (N/A)
Give me one like this, where they’ve all got cards, _where they’ve all got cards that’ll win if they play them right_, and then watch me. ❋ Cain, James (1934)
The absence of any deposits of importance containing recent shells in Chili, or anywhere on the western coast of South America, naturally led Mr. Darwin to the conclusion that where the bed of the sea is either stationary or rising, circumstances are far less favourable than where the level is sinking to the accumulation of conchiferous strata of sufficient thickness and extension to resist the average vast amount of denudation. ❋ Unknown (1909)
«I do not doubt that there will come a day when we’ll walk over the plains of the sun — the flesh of our body then as gauze, moved at will where we please and swift as thought — inner and outer motion keeping time with the beat and rhythm of that _where we are_ —» ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
To understand the cause of appendicitis we must go back to the beginning, and when we do we find that it starts just where all diseases start, namely, _where health leaves off! ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)
_Etiology: _To understand the cause of appendicitis we must go back to the beginning, and when we do we find that it starts just where all diseases start, namely, _where health leaves off! ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)
She went a-whizzing right to the office of the big man, where maybe I’ll work; I guess I’ll go see him tomorrow, I got a hankering for knowing what I’m going to _do_, and _where_ I’m going to be paid for it. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)
However well preserved the monuments might be, they could only show who had been buried, but not where he had been buried, and the _where_, as many maintained, was everything. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
«For my part, I have built my heart in the courses of the wall» — (cheers) — and nothing short of this impelled us to that dire necessity of leaping in the dark, to go we did not know where, and when we found the _where_, not knowing who would follow us. ❋ John Huntley Skrine (1885)
Everywhere else the young men live _where_ they please and _as_ they please; necessarily distributed amongst the towns — people; in any case, therefore, liable to no control or supervision whatever; and in those cases where the university forms but a small part of a vast capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
_ I should like to know _where_ our life _is_ safe, either here or any where else? ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
[crewmate] 1: i found a [body] in na-
[imposter]: WHERE ❋ TopHatCatWUT (2020)
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A: Hey, where is the bathroom?
B: On the end of the hall, [to the right] ❋ Kacper531 (2020)
[Where you at] [the party] [last night]?
We where there! ❋ DifferentialmassblackHOULE (2012)
Person 1: where is it
Person 2: there
Person 1: WHERE
Person2: THERE
After [five] years they kept of saying where and there, they died doing it, [some say] their still [fighting] to this day ❋ Mr.Bruhman (2019)
«to where«: The shift supervisor is never satisfied with our production numbers no matter how much we exceed target. It’s gotten to where we’re asking ourselves why we even try anymore…
«to where (it’s)»: Sure, [the Mustang] still runs like a [raped ape], but sometimes the transmission sticks to where it’s nearly impossible to short-shift [on the drag] strip. ❋ Bozo McScrotus (2017)
Where is [Pete] to, or where is [the club] to ❋ Chris Tough (2004)
«[Simple Plan]? No way, they suck big cock. [The Rasmus] is [where it’s at] now.» ❋ Comrade Karl (2006)
[Hey], where [are you] from?
[No where]. ❋ Mandy McCoy (2008)
WHERE [THE FUCK] AM I BEING [SHOT] FROM?
WHERE? WHEEEERE ❋ Tobisalter (2020)
[Prosecutor]: «Where’s it at?» (meaning the missing 10 million dollars in question)
[Indicted] guy: «Between the ‘is’ and the ‘at’.»
Prosecutor: «Isn’t that not an incomplete sentence and rather literal and evasive?»
Indicted guy: «Oh, you’re good! Touché! [Next question].» ❋ Herr Doktor Grauwolf (2009)
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- quhair, quhar, quher, quhere (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hwâr, wâr; IPA(key): /ʍɛə/, /wɛə/
- (General American) enPR: hwâr, wâr; IPA(key): /ʍɛɚ/, /wɛɚ/
- (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
- (in accents without the wine–whine merger)
- (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
- Homophones: ware, wear, we’re (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
Conjunction[edit]
where
- In, at or to which place or situation.
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2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
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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.
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1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 122:
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Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
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I’ve forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.
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I hardly knew where I was going.
- Synonym: (to which place; archaic or literary) whither
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- In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).
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Stay where you are.
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Go back where you came from.
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Let’s go where it’s warmer.
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- In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
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Please sit where you like.
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Their job is to go where they are called.
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- In a position, case, etc. in which; if.
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You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.
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Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.
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- While on the contrary; although; whereas.
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1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
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And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
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- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- 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.
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2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama’s once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
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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.
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Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.
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Translations[edit]
at or in which place
- Adyghe: тыдэ (təde)
- Albanian: ku (sq)
- Amharic: የት (yät)
- Arabic: [Term?]
- Armenian: որտեղ (hy) (orteł)
- Aromanian: iu
- Assamese: য’ত (zöt)
- Asturian: onde, au (ast)
- Azerbaijani: hara (az), harada (az)
- Bashkir: ҡайҙа (qayða)
- Basque: non (eu)
- Belarusian: дзе (be) (dzje), куды́ (kudý) (where to), адку́ль (adkúlʹ) (where from)
- Bengali: কোথায় (bn) (kōthaẏ), কই (bn) (kôi)
- Bikol Central: sain (bcl), hain (bcl), nasain
- Bulgarian: къде́ (bg) (kǎdé), откъде́ (bg) (otkǎdé) (where from)
- Burmese: ဘယ်အရပ်မှာ (bhaia.raphma), ပဇာ (my) (pa.ja)
- Catalan: on (ca)
- Central Sierra Miwok: myn·ným
- Chickasaw: katiyakta
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 邊度/边度 (yue) (bin1 dou6), 邊處/边处 (bin1 syu3, bin1 syu3-2)
- Dungan: нани (nani), натар (natar)
- Hakka: 哪仔 (nai-é), 哪位 (nai-vi)
- Jin: 哪裡/哪里 (na2 le1)
- Mandarin: 哪裡/哪里 (zh) (nǎli), 哪兒/哪儿 (zh) (nǎr)
- Min Dong: 底所 (diē-nē̤, dē̤-nē̤)
- Min Nan: 佗位 (zh-min-nan) (tó-ūi)
- Wu: 啥地方 (za di faan), 阿裡/阿里 (hha li)
- Xiang: 哪裡/哪里 (la3 li)
- Crimean Tatar: qayerge
- Czech: kde (cs), odkud (cs) (where from)
- Dalmatian: jo
- Danish: hvor (da)
- Dutch: waar (nl), waarvan (nl), waarvandaan (nl)
- Esperanto: kie (eo)
- Estonian: kus (et)
- Faroese: hvar (fo), har (fo)
- Finnish: jossa (fi), missä (fi), siellä missä
- French: où (fr), d’où (fr) (where from)
- Friulian: dulà
- Galician: onde (gl)
- Georgian: სადაც (sadac), საიდანაც (saidanac) (where from)
- German: wo (de), woher (de) (where from)
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍂 (ƕar)
- Greek: όπου (el) (ópou)
- Ancient: ἔνθα (éntha), ἵνα (hína)
- Greenlandic: sumi
- Hebrew: אֵיפֹה (he) (eyfó), הֵיכָן (he) (heykhan)
- Hindi: जहाँ (hi) (jahā̃), जिधर (hi) (jidhar)
- Hungarian: ahol (hu)
- Icelandic: þar sem
- Ido: ube (io)
- Indonesian: mana (id), di mana (id), ke mana (id)
- Interlingua: ubi (ia)
- Italian: dove (it)
- Japanese: 何処に (ja) (どこに, doko ni), どこに (ja) (doko ni)
- Javanese: endi, ing ngendi
- Kabuverdianu: undi
- Kalmyk: альд (alĭd)
- Kashubian: dze
- Kazakh: қайда (kk) (qaida)
- Khmer: អ៊ីណា (ʔii naa)
- Korean: 어디 (ko) (eodi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kû der (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кайда (ky) (kayda)
- Lao: ທີ່ໃດ (thī dai), ໃດ (dai)
- Latgalian: kur, kimā
- Latin: ubi (la)
- Latvian: kur, kamī
- Limburgish: wo (li)
- Lithuanian: kur (lt)
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: каде (kade)
- Malay: mana (ms), di mana (ms), ke mana
- Maltese: fejn (mt)
- Manchu: ᠠᠪᠠ (aba), ᠠᡳ
ᠪᠠ (ai ba) - Maori: hea, tea (mi)
- Mari:
- Western Mari: кышты (kyšty)
- Mirandese: adonde
- Mongolian: хаана (mn) (xaana), хаашаа (mn) (xaašaa)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvor (no)
- Nynorsk: kor, kvar
- Occitan: ont (oc)
- Persian: [script needed]tpos (kojâ)
- Polish: gdzie (pl), skąd (pl) (where from)
- Portuguese: onde (pt), aonde (pt)
- Romanian: unde (ro), de unde (where from)
- Romansch: nua
- Russian: где (ru) (gde), отку́да (ru) (otkúda) (where from), (where to) куда́ (ru) (kudá)
- Rusyn: де (de)
- Sardinian: àba
- Scots: whaur
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: где, гдје
- Roman: gde (sh), gdje (sh)
- Slovak: kde, odkiaľ (where from)
- Slovene: kjé (sl)
- Somali: xaggee
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: źož
- Spanish: donde (es), dónde (es)
- Swedish: där (sv), var (sv)
- Tagalog: kung saan
- Tajik: куҷо (kujo)
- Tamil: எங்கே (ta) (eṅkē)
- Thai: ที่ไหน (tîi-nǎi), ไหน (th) (nǎi)
- Tibetan: ག་པར (ga par)
- Turkish: nerede (tr)
- Turkmen: nirä, nirede
- Ukrainian: де (de), звідки́ (zvidký) (where from), куди (kudy) (where to)
- Urdu: [script needed] (jahā̃)
- Uyghur: [Term?], [Term?]
- Uzbek: qayerda (uz), qayda (uz)
- Vietnamese: đâu (vi)
- Volapük: kö (vo)
- Yiddish: וווּ (vu)
- Zealandic: daer-a (non-conjugated form)
to which place or situation
- Arabic: [Term?]
- Armenian: ուր (hy) (ur)
- Bashkir: ҡайҙа (qayða)
- Belarusian: куды́ (kudý)
- Bikol Central: kun sain, kun hain, kun nasain
- Bulgarian: накъде (bg) (nakǎde)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 哪裡/哪里 (zh) (nǎli), 哪兒/哪儿 (zh) (nǎr)
- Czech: kam (cs)
- Danish: hvor (da)
- Dutch: waartoe (nl), waarheen (nl)
- Finnish: sinne missä
- French: vers où
- Galician: a onde, onde (gl)
- Georgian: საითკენაც (saitḳenac), საითაც (saitac), სადაც (sadac)
- German: wohin (de)
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌴 (ƕadrē)
- Greek: οποίο (el) (opoío)
- Ancient: ὅποι (hópoi), οἷ (hoî), ἔνθα (éntha), ᾗ (hêi)
- Hebrew: לְאָן (l’án)
- Hindi: जहाँ (hi) (jahā̃), जिधर (hi) (jidhar)
- Hungarian: ahova (hu), ahová (hu)
- Icelandic: þangað sem
- Italian: laddove (it)
- Japanese: 何処へ (ja) (どこへ, doko e), どこへ (ja) (doko e)
- Korean: 으로 (ko) (-euro)
- Kyrgyz: каякка (kayakka)
- Latin: ubi (la)
- Latvian: kur, kurp
- Macedonian: накаде (nakade)
- Malay: ke mana
- Polish: dokąd (pl)
- Portuguese: onde (pt), aonde (pt)
- Quechua: mayman
- Romanian: încotro (ro), unde (ro)
- Russian: куда́ (ru) (kudá)
- Scots: whaur
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: куда
- Roman: kuda (sh)
- Slovene: kam (sl)
- Spanish: adonde (es)
- Swedish: vart (sv), dit (sv)
- Tagalog: kung saan
- Tamil: எங்கே (ta) (eṅkē)
- Turkish: nereye (tr)
- Ukrainian: куди́ (kudý)
- Urdu: [script needed] (jahā̃)
- Zealandic: daer’ean-a (non-conjugated form)
wherever
- Bikol Central: dawa sain
- Finnish: minne (fi), sinne minne
- French: où que (fr)
- Galician: onde (gl)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὅποι (hópoi), ὅπου (hópou)
- Hindi: जहाँ (hi) (jahā̃)
- Italian: laddove (it)
- Japanese: する所はどこでも
- Korean: 어디든지 (ko) (eodideunji)
- Malay: mana-mana (ms)
- Swedish: vartän
Adverb[edit]
where (not comparable)
- Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: in, at or to what place.
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Where are you?
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Where are you going?
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He asked where I grew up.
- (with certain prepositions) What place.
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Where did you come from?
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Where are you off to?
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Where are you at? (informal)
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- (informal) where are.
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Where you at?
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Where you going?
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- In what situation.
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Where would we be without our parents?
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- (relative) In, at or to which.
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This is the place where we first met.
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He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.
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That’s the place where we went on holiday.
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Here’s a picture of York, where I was born. (non-defining)
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- (fused relative) The place in, at or to which.
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He lives within five miles of where he was born.
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This is a photo of where I went on holiday.
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Translations[edit]
at what place; to what place; from what place
- Afrikaans: waar (af)
- Albanian: ku (sq)
- American Sign Language: 1@Side-PalmForward SmallSidetoside
- Arabic: أَيْن (ar) (ʔayn)
- Egyptian Arabic: فين (fēn)
- Hijazi Arabic: فين (fēn)
- Moroccan Arabic: فين (fīn), فاين (fāyen), وين (wīn)
- Levantine Arabic: وَيْن (wayn, wēn) (and other Eastern dialects)
- Aramaic: איכא [translit?]
- Armenian: որտեղ (hy) (orteł), ուր (hy) (ur)
- Old Armenian: յո (yo), ուր (ur)
- Ashkun: kū̃, koňo
- Asturian: ónde (ast)
- Awadhi: कहां (kahā̃)
- Azerbaijani: harada (az), hanı
- Bakhtiari: کوجه (kōje)
- Bengali: কোথায় (bn) (kōthaẏ), যেখানে (jekhane)
- Bhojpuri: कहां (kahā̃)
- Bulgarian: къде́ (bg) (kǎdé)
- Burmese: ဘယ် (my) (bhai), (who, where, which, what), ပဇာ (my) (pa.ja)
- Catalan: on (ca)
- Chamicuro: na’yeni
- Chamorro: manu
- Cherokee: ᎭᏢ (hatlv)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 哪裡/哪裏/哪里 (naa5 leoi5) (formal), 邊度/边度 (yue) (bin1 dou6) (vernacular), 邊處/边处 (bin1 syu3) (vernacular)
- Dungan: нани (nani), натар (natar)
- Hakka: 哪仔, 哪位
- Mandarin: 哪裡/哪裏/哪里 (zh) (nǎlǐ, nǎli), 哪兒/哪儿 (zh) (nǎr) (with erhua), 哪 (zh) (nǎ) (without erhua)
- Min Nan: 佗位 (zh-min-nan) (tó-ūi, tōe, toeh, toh-ūi), 佗 (zh-min-nan) (toh, tah, tio̍h), 佗落 (tó-lo̍h), 佗位仔 (tá-ūi-á)
- Chuvash: ӑҫта (ăśta)
- Classical Nahuatl: cān
- Crimean Tatar: qayda, qayerde
- Danish: hvor (da)
- Esperanto: (at what place) kie (eo), (to what place) kien (eo), (from what place) de kie (eo)
- Estonian: kus (et)
- Even: иду (idu)
- Evenki: иду (idu)
- Fang (Bantu): ve
- Fiji Hindi: kahaan (hif)
- Finnish: missä (fi)
- French: où (fr)
- Galician: onde (gl)
- Georgian: სად (sad), საით (sait), საიდან (saidan)
- Gothic: (at what place) 𐍈𐌰𐍂 (ƕar), (to what place) 𐍈𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌴 (ƕadrē), (from what place) 𐍈𐌰𐌸𐍂𐍉 (ƕaþrō)
- Greek: πού (el) (poú)
- Greenlandic: sumi
- Hawaiian: aia i hea
- Hebrew: מאין (mei-ayin)
- Higaonon: hindu
- Hiligaynon: diin
- Hindi: कहाँ (hi) (kahā̃), किधर (hi) (kidhar)
- Hungarian: hol (hu)
- Ibanag: sitaw
- Icelandic: hvar (is)
- Ido: ube (io)
- Indonesian: ke mana, di mana
- Interlingua: ubi (ia)
- Irish: cá, cá háit, cén áit
- Old Irish: cía airm, cairm, cía dú
- Italian: dove (it) (at what place)
- Japanese: 何処 (ja) (どこ, doko), どこ (ja) (doko), どうなる (dō naru)
- Kamkata-viri: kuiua, kora
- Kapampangan: nokarin, nukarin
- Kazakh: қайда (kk) (qaida)
- Khmer: ឯណា (ae naa), ណា (km) (naa)
- Korean: 어디 (ko) (eodi)
- Krio: usay
- Kriol: weya
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: کوێ (ckb) (kwê)
- Northern Kurdish: kû (ku), li kû (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кайда (ky) (kayda)
- Lao: ທີ່ໃດ (thī dai), ໃສ (sai), ຢູ່ໃສ (yū sai)
- Latin: (at what place) ubi (la), (to what place) quo (la), (from what place) unde (la)
- Latgalian: kur, kimā
- Latvian: kur
- Lithuanian: kur (lt)
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: каде (kade)
- Maguindanao: andaw
- Malagasy: aiza (mg)
- Malay: di mana (ms), ke mana, dari mana
- Maltese: fejn (mt)
- Manchu: ᠶᠠᠪᠠ (yaba), ᠠᠪᠠ (aba)
- Mansi: хо̄т (hōt)
- Maori: hea
- Marathi: कुठे (kuṭhe)
- Mongolian: хаашаа (mn) (xaašaa), хаана (mn) (xaana)
- Nahuatl: can
- Navajo: háadi, háájí
- Ngazidja Comorian: nɗa, nɗahu
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvor (no)
- Nynorsk: kor, kvar
- Old French: ou
- Ossetian: кӕм (kæm)
- Pangasinan: iner
- Pashto: چېرې
- Persian: کجا (fa) (kojâ), کو (fa) (ku)
- Pipil: kan, can
- Portuguese: onde (pt)
- Quechua: may
- Romani: kaj
- Romanian: unde (ro)
- Romansch: nua
- Sanskrit: कू (sa) (kū́), कुत्र (sa) (kútra)
- Scots: whaur
- Scottish Gaelic: càite
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: где, гдје
- Roman: gde (sh), gdje (sh)
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Shor: қайда (qayda)
- Sinhalese: කෝ (kō), කොහිද (kohida)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: źo
- Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: dónde (es)
- Sundanese: timanten
- Swahili: wapi
- Sylheti: ꠇꠥꠘꠣꠘꠧ (kunano)
- Tagalog: saan
- Tajik: куҷо (kujo)
- Talysh: (Asalemi) کیا (kiâ)
- Tashelhit: ⵎⴰⵏⵉ (mani)
- Tatar: кайда (tt) (qayda)
- Telugu: ఎక్కడ (te) (ekkaḍa)
- Thai: ที่ไหน (tîi-nǎi)
- Turkmen: nirede
- Urdu: کہاں (kahā̃), کِدَھر (kidhar)
- Uzbek: qayerda (uz)
- Vietnamese: ở đâu
- Waigali: kiv
- Waray-Waray: ha-in
- Welsh: man (cy), ble, lle (cy)
- West Frisian: wêr (fy)
- Yagnobi: ку (ku)
- Yakut: ханна (qanna)
- Yiddish: וווּ (vu)
- Zealandic: waer
- Zhuang: gizlawz
at or in what place
- Arabic: أَيْنَ (ar) (ʔayna)
- Egyptian: فين (fēn)
- Levantine Arabic: وَيْن (wayn, wēn) (and other Eastern dialects)
- Moroccan Arabic: فين (fīn), فاين (fāyen), وين (wīn)
- Bashkir: ҡайҙа (qayða)
- Basque: non (eu)
- Belarusian: дзе (be) (dzje)
- Chechen: мичара (mičara)
- Chichewa: kuti
- Chinese:
- Hakka: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: kde (cs)
- Danish: hvor (da)
- Dutch: waar (nl)
- Esperanto: kie (eo)
- Faroese: hvar (fo)
- Finnish: missä (fi)
- French: où (fr)
- Galician: onde (gl)
- Georgian: სად (sad)
- German: wo (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ποῦ (poû), (poetic) πόθι (póthi)
- Hebrew: אֵיפֹה (he)
- Hindi: किधर (hi) (kidhar)
- Hungarian: hol (hu), merre (hu)
- Icelandic: hvar (is)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: li kû (ku)
- Latin: ubi (la), ubinam (emphatic)
- Lithuanian: kur (lt)
- Mirandese: adonde
- Mòcheno: bou
- Nahuatl: can
- Ojibwe: aaniindi
- Old English: hwǣr
- Old Norse: hvar
- Polish: gdzie (pl)
- Portuguese: onde (pt)
- Quechua: maypi (qu)
- Russian: где (ru) (gde)
- Sindhi: ڪِٿي (kithé)
- Slovak: kde
- Slovene: kjé (sl)
- Spanish: dónde (es)
- Swedish: var (sv)
- Tibetan: ག་པར (ga par)
- Turkish: nerede (tr)
- Ukrainian: де (de)
- Walloon: wice (wa)
to what place
- Arabic: إِلَى أَيْنَ (ʔilā ʔayna)
- Bashkir: ҡайҙа (qayða)
- Belarusian: куды́ (kudý)
- Chinese:
- Hakka: please add this translation if you can
- Chukchi: миӈкыри (miṇkyri)
- Czech: kam (cs)
- Danish: hvor (da), hvorhen, hvort (archaic or dialectal)
- Dutch: waarheen (nl), waarnaartoe (nl)
- Esperanto: kien (eo)
- Faroese: hvagar, hvar (fo), hvar til, hvørt (poetic)
- Finnish: mihin (fi), minne (fi)
- Galician: onde (gl), a onde
- Georgian: საით (sait), საითკენ (saitḳen)
- German: wohin (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ποῖ (poî), ποῦ (poû) (Koine)
- Hindi: कहाँ (hi) (kahā̃), किधर (hi) (kidhar)
- Hungarian: hova (hu), hová (hu), merre (hu), merrefelé (hu)
- Icelandic: hvert (is)
- Latin: quō (la)
- Nahuatl: campa
- Old English: hwæder
- Polish: dokąd (pl)
- Portuguese: aonde (pt)
- Russian: куда́ (ru) (kudá)
- Sindhi: ڪيڏانهن (sd) (kéddā̃h)
- Slovak: kam
- Slovene: kám (sl)
- Spanish: adónde (es)
- Swedish: vart (sv)
- Turkish: nereye (tr)
- Ukrainian: куди́ (kudý)
- Yiddish: וווּהין (vuhin)
in what situation
- Czech: kde (cs)
- Danish: hvor (da)
- Finnish: missä (fi)
- French: où (fr)
- Galician: onde (gl)
- German: wo (de)
- Greek: πού (el) (poú)
- Hungarian: hol (hu)
- Icelandic: hvar (is)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: li kû (ku)
- Latin: ubi (la)
- Macedonian: каде (kade)
- Polish: gdzie (pl) (colloquial)
- Portuguese: aonde (pt)
- Russian: где (ru) (gde)
- Scots: whaur
- Tagalog: saan
- Telugu: ఎక్కడ (te) (ekkaḍa)
- Vietnamese: ở đâu
- Walloon: wice (wa)
- Yiddish: וווּ (vu)
the place in which
- Arabic: حَيْثُ (ḥayṯu)
- Asturian: onde
- Czech: kde (cs)
- Danish: hvor (da)
- Dutch: waar (nl), waarheen (nl), waarvan (nl), waarvandaan (nl)
- Esperanto: kie (eo)
- Finnish: siellä missä, sieltä missä, sinne missä
- French: où (fr)
- Galician: onde (gl)
- German: wo (de)
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍂 (ƕar)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ὅπου (hópou), ἔνθα (éntha) (in verse), ἵνα (hína) (in verse)
- Hebrew: איפה (he) (eifo)
- Hindi: जहाँ (hi) (jahā̃)
- Indonesian: tempat (id)
- Italian: dove (it)
- Japanese: 場所 (ja) (ばしょ, basho)
- Latin: ubi (la)
- Latvian: kur
- Macedonian: каде (kade), каде што (kade što)
- Malay: dari mana
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvor (no), der (no)
- Nynorsk: kor, kvar, der
- Portuguese: onde (pt)
- Russian: где (ru) (gde)
- Scots: whaur
- Spanish: donde (es)
- Swedish: där (sv)
- Tagalog: kung saan
- Turkish: nerede (tr)
- Vietnamese: nơi (vi), chỗ (vi)
- Waray-Waray: diin
- West Frisian: dêr’t
Translations to be checked
- Arabic: مِن أَيْنَ (min ʔayna)
- Egyptian: منين (menīn)
- Moroccan Arabic: منين (mnīn), مناين (mnāyen)
- Bashkir: ҡайҙан (qayðan)
- Belarusian: адку́ль (adkúlʹ)
- Chinese:
- Hakka: 奈
- Czech: odkud (cs)
- Danish: hvorfra
- Dutch: waarvan (nl), waarvandaan (nl)
- Faroese: hvaðan, hvaðani
- Finnish: mistä (fi)
- French: d’où (fr)
- Galician: de onde, onde (gl)
- Georgian: საიდან (saidan)
- German: woher (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πόθεν (póthen)
- Hindi: किधर (hi) (kidhar)
- Hungarian: honnan (hu)
- Icelandic: hvaðan (is)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ji kû
- Latin: unde (la)
- Nahuatl: campa
- Polish: skąd (pl)
- Portuguese: de onde
- Russian: отку́да (ru) (otkúda)
- Serbo-Croatian: odakle (sh), oдакле
- Sindhi: ڪِٿان (kithā̃)
- Slovak: odkiaľ
- Slovene: odkód
- Spanish: de dónde
- Swedish: varifrån (sv)
- Tibetan: ག་ནས (ga nas)
- Ukrainian: звідки́ (zvidký)
- Walloon: di wice (wa), did dou (wa)
Noun[edit]
where (plural wheres)
- The place in which something happens.
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A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the place in which something happens
- Arabic: أَيْن (ar) m (ʔayn)
- Czech: kde (cs)
- Dutch: waar (nl) n, waarheen (nl) n, waarvan (nl) n, waarvandaan (nl) n
- Esperanto: kie (eo)
- Finnish: missä (fi)
- French: où (fr) m
- Galician: onde (gl)
- German: Wo n
- Hindi: जिधर (hi) (jidhar), जहाँ (hi) (jahā̃)
- Indonesian: tempat (id)
- Italian: dove (it) m
- Japanese: 何処 (ja) (どこ, doko)
- Latin: in quo loco m
- Macedonian: каде (kade), каде што (kade što)
- Malay: di mana (ms)
- Polish: gdzie (pl)
- Portuguese: onde (pt)
- Scots: whaur
- Spanish: donde (es) m
- Tagalog: kinaroroonan, kung saan
- Vietnamese: ở đâu
Descendants[edit]
- Hawaiian Creole: wea
Anagrams[edit]
- Hewer, hewer, rehew
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷ-
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Where is most commonly used as an adverb to define a location or position. It can also be used informally as a conjunction in place of the words “that” or “whereas.” As such, “where” is commonly used to ask questions like “Where are my socks?” or make positional statements like, “Home is where the heart is.”
Contents
- 1 What is the difference between were and where?
- 2 Where the is used in sentence?
- 3 What type of word is where?
- 4 Where in a sentence as a conjunction?
- 5 What is an example of where?
- 6 What is another word for where?
- 7 Where do we use the articles?
- 8 Where should you not use?
- 9 What does wher mean?
- 10 Can Where be an adverb?
- 11 Were VS where VS wear?
- 12 What are the 10 examples of conjunctions?
- 13 What are the 7 conjunctions?
- 14 Were there or where there?
- 15 Where were you meaning?
- 16 What is the opposite of where?
- 17 Is where a homophone?
- 18 Are determiners?
- 19 Where do you use at and in?
- 20 What are preposition words list?
What is the difference between were and where?
“Were” (rhymes with “fur”) is a past form of the verb “to be.” “We’re” (rhymes with “fear”) is a contraction of “we are.” The adverb and conjunction “where” (rhymes with “hair”) refers to a place.
Where the is used in sentence?
Use “the” with any noun when the meaning is specific; for example, when the noun names the only one (or one) of a kind. Adam was the first man (the only ‘first man’). New York is the largest city in the United States (only one city can be ‘the largest’). We live on the earth (the only Earth we know).
What type of word is where?
As detailed above, ‘where’ can be an adverb, a conjunction, a noun or a pronoun.
Where in a sentence as a conjunction?
Starting a Sentence with a Conjunction
As mentioned above, a subordinating conjunction can begin a sentence if the dependent clause comes before the independent clause. It’s also correct to begin a sentence with a coordinating conjunction. Often, it’s a good way to add emphasis.
What is an example of where?
The definition of where is the place in, what or which place. An example of where is someone saying that he lives close to the house of his mother; He lives next door to where his mother lives.
What is another word for where?
In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for where, like: in which, anywhere, in what place?, at which place?, at which point, in what direction?, wherever, in whatever place, whither, to-what-end and at which.
Where do we use the articles?
Articles are used before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective. The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader. The indefinite article (a, an) is used before a noun that is general or when its identity is not known.
Where should you not use?
Here are some situations in which you don’t need to use the.
- Things in general. You don’t need an article when you talk about things in general.
- Names. Names of holidays, countries, companies, languages, etc.
- Places, locations, streets.
- Sports.
- Noun + number.
- Acronyms.
What does wher mean?
1. Whether. Men must enquire (this is mine assent), Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. – Chaucer.
Can Where be an adverb?
Where can be used in the following ways: as a question adverb (introducing a direct or indirect question): Where are you going? I wonder where she lives. as a relative adverb (referring back to a noun and introducing a relative clause): I know a place where you can hide.
Were VS where VS wear?
Just remember that “we’re” is a contraction (the apostrophe is a giveaway), while “where” is a location, “were” is the past of “to be” (in some cases), and “wear” covers everything else (sometimes literally).
What are the 10 examples of conjunctions?
Subordinating Conjunctions
1. Because | She usually eats at home, because she likes cooking. |
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7. Therefore | She came first. Therefore she got a good seat. |
8. Provided | They can listen to music provided they disturb nobody. |
9. Unless | You don’t need to go unless you want to. |
10. Since | Since I see you, I am better. |
What are the 7 conjunctions?
The seven coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
Were there or where there?
Were is the past tense of be when used as a verb. Where means in a specific place when used as an adverb or conjunction. A good way to remember the difference is that where has an “h” for “home”, and home is a place. Out of the two words, “were” is the most common.
Where were you meaning?
“Where were you?” = “Where were you at a specific point in time (in the past)?” “Where have you been?” = “Where were you over a period of time (in the past)?”
What is the opposite of where?
▲ Opposite of the place, area or space occupied by, or intended for, an event, activity or purpose. there. here.
Is where a homophone?
The homophone for ‘where’ is ‘wear‘. ‘Where’ is a question referring to a place, such as, ‘Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?’
Are determiners?
A determiner is a word placed in front of a noun to specify quantity (e.g., “one dog,” “many dogs”) or to clarify what the noun refers to (e.g., “my dog,” “that dog,” “the dog”). All determiners can be classified as one of the following: An Article (a/an, the) A Demonstrative (this, that, these, those)
Where do you use at and in?
Deciding which word you should be using comes down to a question of where. “At” is used when you are at the top, bottom or end of something; at a specific address; at a general location; and at a point. “In” is used in a space, small vehicle, water, neighborhood, city and country.
What are preposition words list?
List of Prepositions
- A aboard, about, above, according to, across, after, against, ahead of, along, amid, amidst, among, around, as, as far as, as of, aside from, at, athwart, atop.
- B barring, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but (when it means except), by, by means of.
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WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2023 where /hwɛr, wɛr/USA pronunciation
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023 where
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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: where /wɛə/ adv
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Etymology: Old English hwǣr, hwār(a); related to Old Frisian hwēr, Old Saxon, Old High German hwār, Old Norse, Gothic hvar ‘where‘ also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): |
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