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Dunno if I like "whom", actually. The English case system has been simplified so much that it seems pointless to keep it around as a marker for all non-nominative and non-genitive forms of "who."

Verrrry strange! And interesting, for us pedants(or in my case, wannabe pedant). I'm thinking that English may have used a different word there, but it just degenerated into "whose" along with the...

Hrhrmmm. This section apparently has the answer:

[quote]Attributiver Gebrauch des Genitivs

Die Formen des Genitivs k

Ah-ha! (Pardon the Scandinavian pun ;) )

So in Swedish, there are different words for "whose" and the genitive of "who", much like in Russian. So why exactly is it that the word(s) in German, a...

Is there a similar construction in Swedish?

I think it would be easier to understand for me if there are really two words in German, spelled in exactly the same way but gramatically different:...

Guys, I'm not concerned at all with translating "wessen" and "whose." Here is the problem:

1)I feel drawing parallels in one's own language is helpful in understanding other languages.
2)I am...

I am aware of the way it is written correctly, and the reason I am asking about "whose" in the German forum is because "wessen" is indeed the equivalent to "whose." I am writing something where I say...

I remember the first time I read that "wessen" was the genitive of "wer." The next day, in my German class, I said something like "Wessen ist diese Kuli?", and got a verbal slap on the wrist from my...