Referring expressions - Verwijswoorden

Interrogative pronouns - Vragende voornaamwoorden

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Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions about people or things. 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.

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