英単語

whereの意味・使い方・発音

where

英 [weə] 美 [wɛr]
  • adv.どこで
  • 代名詞 where.
  • conj.
  • n. 場所

語源


where どこで

PIE*kwoから。インド?ヨーロッパ語の疑問代名詞で、who, where, why, howと同じ語源を持つ。

英語の語源


where
where: [OE] Where is an ancient Indo-European formation derived from the interrogative base *qwo- (source also of English what, who, etc). In Germanic (where its relatives include Dutch waar, Swedish var, Danish hvor, and the war- of German warum ‘why’) it has largely become limited in its application to ‘place’, but in other branches of the Indo-European language family it performs other interrogative functions: Latin cūr ‘why’, for instance, Welsh pyr ‘why’, and Sanskrit kárhi- ‘when’, beside Lithuanian kur ‘where’.
where (adv.)
Old English hw?r, hwar "at what place," from Proto-Germanic adverb *hwar (cognates: Old Saxon hwar, Old Norse hvar, Old Frisian hwer, Middle Dutch waer, Old High German hwar, German wo, Gothic hvar "where"), equivalent to Latin cur, from PIE interrogative base *kwo- (see who). Where it's at attested from 1903.

例文


1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get,there 's always something new to learn about.After all,life is full of surprises.
あなたがどこに住んでいても、あなたは何歳になっても、いつも新しいことを学ぶ必要があります。結局、生活はいつも驚きに満ちています。

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2.I have$100 m hidden away where no one will ever find it.
私は1億ドルを永遠に誰も見つけられない場所に隠しました。

3.It got to the point where he had to leave.
は彼が行かなければならないほどになった。

4.I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly.
私は林の茂った曲がりを迂回したことがある。

5.You have to know where to stand for a good viewpoint.
どこに立って角度を見るのが理想的かを知っておく必要があります。

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