📍 Where is 🔎 Where has

where's

∞ 1.0

To ask where someone or something is

auxiliary
/wɛrz/

Informal

: dónde está

Where's the nearest train station from here?

Examples

She asked, 'Where's my phone? I can't find it anywhere.'
Where's the cat?
Do you know where's the best place to eat around here?
Where's my phone!
Where's the nearest train station from here?
Do you know where's the best place to eat around here?
She asked, 'Where's my phone? I can't find it anywhere.'

Idioms

where's the beef

Archaic

4 9.9

A way to show doubt about the real worth of something

Surface Forms

where's third person singular

where is third person singular

Morphology

where's = where + is (transparent) = where + 's

A straightforward contraction of the common phrase 'where is' with no change of meaning for learners.

Etymology

Where's is a short form of where is, made by leaving out letters and using an apostrophe, so it is a quick way to ask 'in what place' someone or something is.