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5. Wessen Vetter aus Amerika war letzten Sommer hier?<br />
6. Wie arbeitet der Student?<br />
7. Wodurch erfuhr sie das Unglück?<br />
8. Für wen soll der Vater sorgen?<br />
9. Wen liebt die Mutter am meisten?<br />
10. Woraus trinkt man Tee oder Kaffee?<br />
Wer and was<br />
You are already aware that the interrogative pronouns wer and was are used for questions regarding<br />
people and things, respectively. Since these pronouns can be declined, the answers to questions<br />
that use these words require the use of the same case as the interrogative pronoun. That is,<br />
the answer to wer will be a nominative case pronoun or noun such as die Frau, and the answer<br />
to wen will be an accusative case pronoun or noun such as den Mann.<br />
The declension of wer and was:<br />
Nominative: wer was<br />
Accusative: wen was<br />
Dative: wem wem<br />
Genitive (Possessive): wessen wessen<br />
Remember that the accusative and dative forms of was are not used after prepositions.<br />
Instead, a prepositional adverb is formed, for example: wofür (for what) or wovon (from<br />
what).<br />
Übung<br />
3·3<br />
Example:<br />
Form questions with wer or was. Use the underlined words or phrases as your cue for<br />
determining which pronoun and which case to use.<br />
Karl sprach mit einem Freund.<br />
Mit wem sprach Karl?<br />
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