Freunde: 'wen' and 'wem' - interrogative, word order with reflexive questions
I can ask and answer questions about friends and relationships using 'wer', 'wen', 'wem' and reflexive verbs.
Freunde: 'wen' and 'wem' - interrogative, word order with reflexive questions
I can ask and answer questions about friends and relationships using 'wer', 'wen', 'wem' and reflexive verbs.
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Key learning points
- The interrogative pronoun 'wer' becomes 'wen' when it is a direct object in the accusative.
- The interrogative pronoun 'wer' becomes 'wem' when it is an indirect object in the dative.
- Use a long [e] sound with 'wer', 'wen' and 'wem'.
- In questions with reflexive verbs, only subject and verb swap position. The reflexive pronoun now follows the subject.
- Where a verb is usually followed by a preposition, this comes before the question word, e.g., 'Mit wem?', 'Für wen?'.
Keywords
Wer, wen, wem - question word meaning 'who' or 'whom' which changes according to case
Reflexive pronoun - used to indicate doing something to yourself, words like ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’
Common misconception
Questions words all have fixed spellings.
'Wer', meaning 'who', changes spelling according to its case. This also used to be the case in English, but the 'whom' form is often not used nowadays.
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