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Pronoun Types 15
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Personal pronounsLecture1.1
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Personal pronoun exercisesLecture1.2
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Possessive pronounsLecture1.3
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Possessive pronoun exercisesLecture1.4
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Gender and pronounsLecture1.5
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Stressed and unstressed pronounsLecture1.6
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Reflexive pronounsLecture1.7
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Demonstrative pronounsLecture1.8
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Demonstrative pronoun exercisesLecture1.9
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Interrogative pronounsLecture1.10
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Interrogative pronoun exercisesLecture1.11
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Relative pronounsLecture1.12
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Relatvie pronoun exercisesLecture1.13
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Indefinite pronounsLecture1.14
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Pronouns exercises (advanced)Lecture1.15
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Interrogative pronouns
Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions about people or things, i.e. they are question words, used in interrogative sentences. Dutch has three interrogative pronouns: wie, wat and welk(e). The form of the interrogative pronoun depends on whether it stands in the place of a person (wie) or an object (wat), or whether the pronoun relates to a choice (welk(e)).
person: wie
Wie heeft de appeltaart gebakken?
Who has baked the apple pie?
object: wat
Wat heb je in de stad gekocht?
What have you bought in town?
choice: welk(e)
Op welk spoor komt de trein aan?
On which platform does the train arrive?
Welke jurk vind je mooier: de groene of de rode?
Which dress do you find prettier: the green one or the red one?
Note that welk(e) behaves like an adjective: it declines according to the noun it qualifies. Welke is used when the noun it precedes is a de word and welk is used when the noun is a het word. In the examples above, spoor is a het word, while jurk is a de word.