wer

Meaning

  1. (interrogative) who (what person or people)
  2. (colloquial,interrogative) what, which (one) (see usage notes)
  3. (relative) whoever, he who, someone who, the person who, anyone who (whatever person or persons)
  4. (colloquial,indefinite) somebody, someone; anybody, anyone (an unspecified person)

Concepts

with whom

each of both

what kind of person

he who

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

wer

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

wer

Graubünden

Graubünden

wer

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

wäär

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

wär

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

wääreli

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

wo

Zürich

Zürich

wär

Aargau

Aargau

wär

Zürich

Zürich

wert

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

wo

Bern

Bern

wär

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/veːr/
Etymology

From Middle High German wër, from Old High German wer, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ. Related to wo.

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