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"english": "But that they should have a chat with us, they don't do that, just maybe those who we know a bit, that's one family (...)",
"ref": "1979, Margret Weiler, Zur Frage der Integration der Zigeuner in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: eine Untersuchung der gegenwärtigen Situation der Zigeuner und der sozialpolitischen und sozialarbeiterischen Massnahmen für Zigeuner, self-published doctoral thesis, p. 188",
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"english": "Ali: \"And Hussein, he's a bloke who / who won't speak Turkish. He only talks German to me. (...)\"",
"ref": "1994, Burkhard Hergesell, Arbeiterkulturen im Betrieb: interethnische Beziehungen zwischen Produktionsarbeitern: eine empirische Studie, IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, p. 133",
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"roman": "Ich bin, der ich bin. Ich bin, wo ich bin. Ich bin der, wo ich bin. Wo sagt man sowas?",
"text": "2009, Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns. Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel). Über Tiere. – Drei Romane, Rowohlt Taschenbuch, p. 216",
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"2": "*hwar"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷis"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kʷis",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "where"
},
"expansion": "English where",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "With a widespread dialectal shift from -ā- to -ō-, from Middle High German wā, wār, from Old High German wār, hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, whence also wer. Cognate with English where.",
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"2": "conjunction"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "conj",
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{
"categories": [
"German colloquialisms",
"German terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"english": "When I turned around, he just abruptly punched me in the face.",
"text": "Wo ich mich umgedreht hab, haut der mir unvermittelt eine rein.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"when"
],
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"when",
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]
],
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"(colloquial) when"
],
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{
"word": "als"
}
],
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]
}
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"ipa": "/voː/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-oː"
},
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}
],
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}
{
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"German 1-syllable words",
"German adverbs",
"German conjunctions",
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German lemmas",
"German pronouns",
"German terms derived from Middle High German",
"German terms derived from Old High German",
"German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"German terms inherited from Middle High German",
"German terms inherited from Old High German",
"German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"German terms with IPA pronunciation",
"German terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:German/oː",
"Rhymes:German/oː/1 syllable"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gmh",
"3": "wā"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German wā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "wār"
},
"expansion": "wār",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "goh",
"3": "wār"
},
"expansion": "Old High German wār",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "hwār"
},
"expansion": "hwār",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*hwār"
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"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hwār",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwēr"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hwēr",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*hwar"
},
"expansion": "*hwar",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷis"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kʷis",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "wer"
},
"expansion": "wer",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "where"
},
"expansion": "English where",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "With a widespread dialectal shift from -ā- to -ō-, from Middle High German wā, wār, from Old High German wār, hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, whence also wer. Cognate with English where.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "pronoun"
},
"expansion": "wo",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"word": "woanders"
},
{
"word": "wobei"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German dialectal terms",
"German nonstandard terms",
"German terms with quotations",
"German terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I'm the one who can do that.",
"text": "Ich bin der, wo das kann.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But that they should have a chat with us, they don't do that, just maybe those who we know a bit, that's one family (...)",
"ref": "1979, Margret Weiler, Zur Frage der Integration der Zigeuner in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: eine Untersuchung der gegenwärtigen Situation der Zigeuner und der sozialpolitischen und sozialarbeiterischen Massnahmen für Zigeuner, self-published doctoral thesis, p. 188",
"text": "Aber daß sie sich da mit uns unterhalten, das tun die nicht, mal grad die wo wir mal kennen, das ist eine Familie (...)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Ali: \"And Hussein, he's a bloke who / who won't speak Turkish. He only talks German to me. (...)\"",
"ref": "1994, Burkhard Hergesell, Arbeiterkulturen im Betrieb: interethnische Beziehungen zwischen Produktionsarbeitern: eine empirische Studie, IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, p. 133",
"text": "Ali: \"Und der Hussein, der ist ein Typ, wo / wo doch nicht Türkisch redet. Der redet nur Deutsch mit mir. (...)\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "I am who I am. I am where I am. I am the one that I am. Where do they say it like this?",
"roman": "Ich bin, der ich bin. Ich bin, wo ich bin. Ich bin der, wo ich bin. Wo sagt man sowas?",
"text": "2009, Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns. Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel). Über Tiere. – Drei Romane, Rowohlt Taschenbuch, p. 216",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"who, whom, which, that"
],
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[
"who",
"who"
],
[
"whom",
"whom"
],
[
"which",
"which"
],
[
"that",
"that"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(relative, dialectal, nonstandard) who, whom, which, that"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"nonstandard",
"relative"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/voː/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-oː"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/De-wo.ogg/De-wo.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/De-wo.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/De-wo2.ogg",
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}
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