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Hvilket brev er ditf Which letter is yours?
Hvilke brev er dine? Which letters are yours?
4. Hvem, hvad, and hvilken all have the possessive
hvis (whose). Hvis is used adjectively, but is not inflected:
hvis bok, hvis brev; hvis b0ker, hvis brev (pi.).
5.
Hvad for en is also used as an interrogative
pronoun. The neuter is hvad for ett, and the plural
hvad for (nogen).
Ex. : Hvad for en bok er What book is this ?
dettef
Hvad for ett brev er dettef What letter is this ?
Hvad for (nogen) bfiker What books are these?
er dettef
Note i. The demonstrative pronoun is not inflected for
agreement in the constructions given above.
Note 2. Hvilken is used in exclamations: Hvilken vakker
dag! What a fine
day!
Note 3. Hvad for en (ett) is similarly used, but in an
abbreviated form: For en vakker dag! What a fine day!
Sometimes only for is used: For varme og vei! What (awful)
heat and roads!
Note 4. Hvem is originally the objective form, but is now
used also in the nominative in the place of hvo, a form now
used only in solemn style.
29. A personal pronoun after a copula is usually
in the objective case. Third person may also be used
in the nominative.
Ex. : Det er mig. Er det dig? Det er ham (or han).
Ham (han) er det.
Note. There is a tendency among recent writers to use
only the nominative after the copula: Det er jeg. Er det du?
Det er han.
VOCABULARY.
en handling [nn], er, act; et ver'bum, ver v ber; def.,
action. ver'bet, verb.