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8.7.1
‘Who’, ‘to whom’, ‘from whom’ etc.
The interrogative pronoun ‘who’ is wie:
Wie is je timmerman?
Who is your carpenter?
Questions involving ‘who’ plus prepositions are always posed as follows:
Aan wie heb je het schrift gegeven?
To whom did you give the exercise book?/Who did you give the
exercise book to?
English usually employs the word order ‘Who(m) did you give the book
to?’ This is not possible in Dutch:
Van wie heb je die fiets gekregen?
Who(m) did you get that bicycle from?
English speakers must be careful not to confuse the interrogative ‘who’ in
indirect questions (i.e. wie in Dutch) with the relative pronoun ‘who’ (i.e.
die or waar in Dutch, see 8.5.2, note 1):
Ik weet niet wie het gedaan heeft. (indirect interrogative)
I don’t know who did it.
Hij is degene die het gedaan heeft. (relative)
He is the one who did it.
8.7.2
‘Whose’
The possessive interrogative pronoun ‘whose’ is van wie, wiens or wie
z’n:
Van wie is dit boek? Whose book is this? (most usual form)
Wiens boek is dit? Whose book is this? (somewhat formal)
Wie z’n boek is dit? Whose book is this? (colloquial)
8.7.3
‘What’
(a) ‘What’ is wat, but when used in combination with a preposition, it is
replaced by waar + the preposition, which can also be separated.
Interrogative
pronouns
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