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17<br />

Relative<br />

clauses<br />

114<br />

Wie is de schrijv<strong>er</strong> die de Nobelprijs gewonnen heeft?<br />

Who is the writ<strong>er</strong> who won the Nobel Prize?<br />

Note: The pronoun die is the subject of the sentence.<br />

Dit is de bankrov<strong>er</strong> die ze gist<strong>er</strong>en gearreste<strong>er</strong>d hebben.<br />

This is the bank robb<strong>er</strong> whom they arrested yest<strong>er</strong>day.<br />

Note: The pronoun die is the direct object of the sentence.<br />

Is dat het huis dat jullie willen kopen?<br />

Is that the house you want to buy?<br />

Waar + preposition<br />

The relative pronoun waar + preposition is used to ref<strong>er</strong> to things that are<br />

accompanied by a preposition. This is often the case when the main v<strong>er</strong>b<br />

of the sentence has a preposition: v<strong>er</strong>tellen ov<strong>er</strong>, denken aan, zorgen voor,<br />

lijken op, protest<strong>er</strong>en tegen, raden naar, reag<strong>er</strong>en op, etc. Examples:<br />

Hi<strong>er</strong> staat het artikel waarov<strong>er</strong> ik je gist<strong>er</strong>en v<strong>er</strong>telde.<br />

This is the article I told you about yest<strong>er</strong>day.<br />

Ik schrijf u een bril voor waarmee u bet<strong>er</strong> kunt lezen.<br />

I’ll prescribe you a pair of glasses with which you’ll be able to read<br />

bett<strong>er</strong>.<br />

Een auto is nou zoiets waaraan ik het liefst zo min mogelijk geld uit<br />

wil geven.<br />

A car is something on which I’d like to spend as little money as possible.<br />

Wie<br />

When the antecedent is a p<strong>er</strong>son, howev<strong>er</strong>, and when the v<strong>er</strong>b is accompanied<br />

by a preposition, we cannot use the pronoun waar + preposition,<br />

but we use the combination wie with a preposition. Examples:<br />

Is dat de vrouw met wie Erik getrouwd is?<br />

Is that the woman to whom Erik is married?<br />

Waar zit de p<strong>er</strong>soon aan wie ik dit formuli<strong>er</strong> moet geven?<br />

Wh<strong>er</strong>e is the p<strong>er</strong>son to whom I should give this form?<br />

Is <strong>er</strong> iemand voor wie je dat niet zou doen?<br />

Is th<strong>er</strong>e someone for whom you wouldn’t do that?

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