Thread: Wessen

[quote=Kamion][quote=awb]First of all, you don't say Wegen wessen, you would say wessentwegen. Similarly:

meinetwegen instead of wegen meiner
deinetwegen instead of wegen deiner
seinetwegen instead of wegen seiner
ihretwegen instead of wegen ihrer
unsertwegen instead of wegen unser
euretwegen instead of wegen euer

[quote=Kamion]And then I came to think of another mind-boggling thing:

German - Der Mann, dessen Auto auf der Stra

Hm, maybe you

Don't trust your teachers, even if they are German. If you live abroad you forget stuff, trust me. It's perfect as Kamion said:
"wegen + dative case", "wegen mir, wegen dir,..."

In German you have the genitive, but it is almost extinct, a sentence with "wessen" is absolutely correct, e.g. "Wessen Auto ist das?"
But noone ever would say that, ok, people would laugh at you. A queen could say that if she was really posh and formal, but even then.
You usually use a dative case: "Wem geh

[quote=priwjet1982]Don't trust your teachers, even if they are German. If you live abroad you forget stuff, trust me. It's perfect as Kamion said:
"wegen + dative case", "wegen mir, wegen dir,..."

In German you have the genitive, but it is almost extinct, a sentence with "wessen" is absolutely correct, e.g. "Wessen Auto ist das?"
But noone ever would say that, ok, people would laugh at you. A queen could say that if she was really posh and formal, but even then.
You usually use a dative case: "Wem geh