live / address
If you want to know where someone is from, you would sign "WHERE FROM YOU?
ADDRESS / LIVE / LIFE / SURVIVE:
Below is a sign for "address." It can be used to mean several concepts like: life, life, and survive.
It is similar to the "live" sign, except instead of using "L" hands it uses "A" hands. The "A" handshape version of this sign can actually be used to mean "live" as in "WHERE YOU ADDRESS?" I wouldn't use it for "HE STILL LIVE?" (Meaning, "Is he still alive?")Let me say that again. You can use the sign "ADDRESS" to mean either "address" or "live"--as in "WHERE YOU ADDRESS?" would mean "Where do you live?"
You might see people sign "ADDRESS" to mean "alive" but I wouldn't, I'd use the "LIVE" sign for that.
If you want to know where someone lives currently, you would sign "WHERE ADDRESS YOU?" or "WHERE LIVE YOU?"
LIVE:
The movement is straight up.
A student asks: "How would u sign "life"? is it the same thing as "live"?"You could sign life the same as the initialized form of LIVE but if you plan on taking an ASL test any time soon I recommend you simply do the version of the sign that uses "A" handshapes. That one sign can mean: Address / live / life / survive.