No. 27 in Latvian

kur

"Kur" means "where."

In a sentence

Kur tu dzīvo?
Where do you live?
The word 'kur' is used here as an interrogative pronoun to ask for a location or place.
Es gribu zināt, kur viņš ir.
I want to know where he is.
In this sentence, 'kur' is used as a conjunction to embed a question about location within a larger statement.
Tā ir vieta, kur mēs bijām vakar.
That is the place where we were yesterday.
Here, 'kur' serves as a relative pronoun to specify the location associated with the antecedent 'vieta' (place).

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