11th February, 2010

posted 2 years ago

felipezee-deactivated20101102-d asked: So this is my second semester of German, and we're learning relative clauses. I know the part of the sentence following the comma has to have the verb at the end. My question involves what case that second part is (dative or accusative)?

All four German cases can be in the relative clause! It always depends on the case that the relative pronoun in the sentence reflects (relative pronouns reflect case, gender and numerus).

e.g. Der Mann, der Peter heißt, wohnt in München. (wer oder was heißt Peter? - DER)

Der Mann, dessen Name Peter ist, wohnt in München. (wessen Name? - DESSEN)

Der Mann, dem ich einen Brief geschrieben habe, wohnt in München. (wem habe ich einen Brief geschrieben? - DEM)

Der Mann, den ich heute gesehen habe, wohnt in München. (wen oder was habe ich gesehen? - DEN)

I’ll soon post a complete chart of relative pronouns :)

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