📍 Where is 🔎 Where has

where's

1 1.0

To ask where someone or something has gone

auxiliary
/wɛrz/

Informal

: dónde ha

Where's she gone? I haven't seen her since this morning.

Examples

Do you know where's my phone been all day?
Everyone wondered where's the manager disappeared to after the meeting.
Where's she gone?
Where's the cat wandered off to?
Do you know where's the dog gone? I can't find him anywhere.
I'm not sure where's that book I borrowed last week.
Where's your brother gone? We were supposed to meet him here.

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 has third person singular

Morphology

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

A direct contraction of 'where has' used before a past participle; the contraction preserves the original auxiliary meaning.

Etymology

Where's can also be a short form of where has when it comes before a past-action verb like 'gone', so it asks 'where has' someone or something been or what happened to them.