whereabouts

paradero, ubicación

Lugar donde está una persona o cosa, especialmente cuando no se sabe dónde encontrarla.

En inglés sencillo: The place where a person or thing is, often when that place is unknown.

• Nobody knows his whereabouts.
• The police asked about the whereabouts of her brother.
• Her current whereabouts are still unknown.

Cómo se usa: whereabouts of someone/something (Police are investigating the whereabouts of the missing painting.)

Sinónimos: location, position

Expresiones frecuentes: someone's whereabouts, current whereabouts, whereabouts are unknown

por dónde, en qué zona

Se usa para preguntar en qué zona está alguien o algo, o dónde ocurre algo.

En inglés sencillo: Used to ask roughly where someone or something is, or where something happens.

• Whereabouts do you live?
• Whereabouts in the city is your office?
• Whereabouts did you find the missing keys?

Cómo se usa: whereabouts + question (Whereabouts do your parents live?)

Sinónimos: where, roughly where

Expresiones frecuentes: whereabouts in town, whereabouts do you, whereabouts is it

en qué zona, por dónde

Se usa para preguntar en qué lugar o en qué parte de un lugar está alguien o algo.

En inglés sencillo: Used to ask in which general place or part of a place someone or something is.

• Whereabouts in town is the school?
• Whereabouts do you come from in Italy?
• Whereabouts in the building did you leave your bag?

Cómo se usa: whereabouts in + place (Whereabouts in Spain does she live?)

Sinónimos: where

Expresiones frecuentes: whereabouts in something, whereabouts in town