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Was is also used as a relative pronoun after the demonstrative pronoun das. For example:<br />
Sie verstand nichts von dem, was ich<br />
sagte.<br />
Hast du das, was ich brauche?<br />
She didn’t understand anything I said.<br />
Do you have what I need?<br />
Was also becomes a relative pronoun after the following words: alles, etwas, nichts, manches,<br />
and vieles. For example:<br />
Ist das alles, was Sie sagen wollen?<br />
Ich habe etwas, was dich freuen wird.<br />
Manches, was sie sagt, ist Unsinn.<br />
Rede nichts, was nicht alle hören dürfen.<br />
Es gibt vieles, was ich vergessen will.<br />
If an adjective is used as a noun, was acts as its relative pronoun:<br />
Das ist das Schönste, was ich jemals<br />
gesehen habe.<br />
Das war das Erste, was er sah.<br />
Is that everything you want to say?<br />
I have something that will make you happy.<br />
Some of what she says is nonsense.<br />
Say nothing that not everyone is allowed to<br />
hear.<br />
There’s a lot that I want to forget.<br />
That’s the nicest thing I’ve ever seen.<br />
That was the first thing he saw.<br />
In addition, the relative pronoun was is used to introduce a relative clause when the antecedent<br />
is an entire clause. For example:<br />
Onkel Karl reist heute ab, was ich sehr<br />
bedaure.<br />
Sie hat die Prüfung bestanden, was uns<br />
sehr erstaunte.<br />
Uncle Karl is leaving today, which I regret<br />
very much.<br />
She passed the test, which really surprised us.<br />
When a preposition is required with the relative pronoun was, the compound form wo(r)<br />
plus preposition is used. For example:<br />
Hier gibt es nichts, wofür er sich<br />
interessiert.<br />
Peter geht an die Universität, worauf sein<br />
Vater sehr stolz ist.<br />
There’s nothing here that interests him.<br />
Peter is going to college, which makes his father<br />
very proud.<br />
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Example:<br />
Complete each <strong>sentence</strong> with an appropriate phrase that includes wer as the relative<br />
pronoun. Be careful to use the correct case of wer.<br />
Wer mir in Not hilft, der ist ein guter Freund.<br />
1. , den kann sie nicht lieben.<br />
2. , dem glaube ich nicht.<br />
3. , der soll es nicht lesen.<br />
4. , dem bleibt man fern.<br />
5. , der ist gegen mich.<br />
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