Note 4 — Section 131. GOETHE’S DAILY LIFE AT WEIMAR. III.
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‘when’, here wo. Notice that: The relative conjunction ‘wo’ is often used in reference to time as a translation of ‘when’ in the sense of ‘at (in or during) which time’; as—Es geschah zu einer Zeit, wo (zu or in welcher) Sie abwesend waren, it happened at a time when you were absent. It is also used relatively, in reference to place, instead of a relative pronoun preceded by a preposition; as—Kennst du das Land, wo (in welchem) die Zitronen blühen? (Goethe) Know you the land where (in which) the citrons bloom? Dies ist das Haus, wo (in dem) er wohnt, this is the house where (in which) he lives.
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