whither
Interrogative sensesInterrogative senses.: To what place; where.
» From whence comest thou, and whither art thou bound?
Wo kommst du her und wo willst du hin? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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5 sensesInterrogative senses.
(not comparable)To what place; where.
Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?
wohin
куда́kudá
куди́kudý
(also, figuratively, humorous, not comparable)To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
Relative senses.
(not comparable)To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
(not comparable)To the place in or to which.
(not comparable)In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
Examples
6 sentencesFrom whence comest thou, and whither art thou bound?
deWo kommst du her und wo willst du hin? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Don't let your vocabulary whither.
Then he searched for her in the grotto, whither she had fled, and whence she had been dragged away.
deDann suchte er sie in der Grotte, wohin sie geflohen war und woher man sie verschleppt hatte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He wasn't certain in which direction he should go and he'd forgotten whither he was traveling and who he was.
deEr war sich nicht sicher, in welche Richtung er gehen sollte, und er hatte vergessen, wohin er reiste und wer er war. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Whither shall one flee? Where shall I go and abide?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no maFrom Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”), from Old English hwider, hwæder (“to what place, where”), from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê (“to what place, where”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“what; which”), from *kʷ- (the primary interrogative root).
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