Unit 1: Basics
9. Question Words
Important question words arewer – who,wen – whom (accusative) andwas – what. More on such pronouns will come in the next unit. Note that some books refer to question words as “interrogative pronouns.”
Examples:
| Wer kennt den Hund? | Who knows this dog? |
| Wen beißt der Hund? | Whom is the dog biting? |
| Was weiß ich? | What do I know? |
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