где
Bulgarian
Etymology
Contraction of къде́ (kǎdé). The spelling was influenced by Russian где (gde).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dɛ]
Audio (Standard Bulgarian): (file) - Rhymes: -dɛ
Conjunction
где • (gde)
- artificial spelling of де (de, “where”)
Russian
Alternative forms
- гдѣ (gdě) — pre-1918 spelling
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic къдѣ (kŭdě), alteration of къде (kŭde) with the locative ending -ѣ (-jě), from Proto-Slavic *kъde.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - IPA(key): [ɡdʲe]
Audio (Saint Petersburg): (file)
Adverb
где • (gde)
- where
- now (sometimes; occasionally)
- 1855, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], chapter V, in Рубка леса, Санкт-Петербург: Современник; English translation from Leo Wiener, transl., The Cutting of the Forest, 1904:
- По поля́не со всех сторо́н расстила́лся где чёрный, где моло̀чно-бе́лый, где лило́вый дым костро́в, и стра́нными фигу́рами носи́лись бе́лые слои́ тума́на.
- Po poljáne so vsex storón rasstilálsja gde čórnyj, gde molòčno-bélyj, gde lilóvyj dym kostróv, i stránnymi figúrami nosílisʹ bélyje sloí tumána.
- Over the clearing there spread on all sides the smoke from the fires, now black, now milk-white, now violet, and the white layers of the mist were forming themselves into fantastic shapes.
Conjunction
где • (gde)
Derived terms
- где́-либо (gdé-libo)
- где́-нибудь (gdé-nibudʹ)
- где́-то (gdé-to)
- не́где (négde)
Related terms
Category Russian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷe- not found
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъdě, *kъde, from Proto-Indo-European *kwu-dʰē.
Adverb
где̏ (Latin spelling gdȅ)
- where (interrogative)
- Где је твој брат? ― Where is your brother?
- (proscribed, colloquial) whither, where, whereto
- Где си ишао јучер? ― Where did you go yesterday?
Pronoun
где̏ ? (Latin spelling gdȅ)