Berufserfahrung: 'Sie', 'Ihnen', interrogatives 'wer', 'wen', 'wem'
I can use 'Sie' and 'Ihnen' to address other people politely in the context of enquiring about work experience.
Berufserfahrung: 'Sie', 'Ihnen', interrogatives 'wer', 'wen', 'wem'
I can use 'Sie' and 'Ihnen' to address other people politely in the context of enquiring about work experience.
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Key learning points
- 'Sie' is the polite way of saying 'you' and is a subject pronoun.
- The direct object pronoun for 'Sie' is also 'Sie'. The indirect object pronoun is 'Ihnen'.
- The interrogative pronoun 'wer' becomes 'wen' in the accusative.
- The interrogative pronoun 'wer' becomes 'wem' in the dative.
Keywords
Wer, wen, wem - question word meaning ‘who’ or ‘whom’ which changes according to case
Object pronoun - word which replaces the object of a verb; it is the accusative for a direct object, e.g., ‘Sie’ (you formal) or dative for an indirect object, e.g., 'Ihnen'
Common misconception
Use 'wer' in German whenever you want to say 'who'.
There are 3 different forms of 'who' in German, which should be used correctly to match the case required in each sentence. There are different forms in English (who, whom), but we don't often use 'whom'. The rules in German are stricter.
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