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Wo ist er denn?

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wo
     adv. (interrogative) where (at what place)
     adv. (relative) where (at or in which place or situation)
     adv. (relative, somewhat, informal) when, that (on which; at which time)
     adv. (indefinite, colloquial) somewhere (in or to an uncertain or unspecified location)
     conj. (colloquial) when
     pron. (relative, dialectal, nonstandard) who, whom, which, that
ist
     v. third-person singular present of sein
     sein
          v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be
          v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition)
          v. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for
          v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
          v. to exist; there to be; to be alive
          v. to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
          v. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag
          det. his
          det. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun)
          det.          (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so.
          det. one's
er
     pron. (personal) he.
     pron. (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal, archaic) Alternative spelling of Er, tr=you (polite)
denn
     conj. for; because; since
     conj. (after a comparative, archaic, or dialectal) than
     adv. (in a question, modal particle) then, ever, but, now (used for emphasis or to express interest, surprise or doubt, or in rhetorical questions)
     adv. (rather rare) thus, so; (expresses a consequence; see usage notes)
     adv. (colloquial regional northern Germany) then, after that, in that case




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