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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

hvem.

who

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

pron/vɛmˀ/[ˈʋemˀ][ʍemˀ]

  1. who

    interrogative
    Hvem er du?
    Hun ved godt, hvis cykel det er

  2. who, that

    relative
    De mennesker, for hvem livet indebærer hårdt arbejde
    Han er i en by, hvis navn han ikke kan udtale
Where this word comes from

Originally, the dative of archaic hvo, from Old Danish hwa, hwo, oblique hwem, genitive hwes. In Old West Norse, the nominative and accusative of this pronoun has been replaced by another pronoun, hverr, but the dative and genitive are still extant: hveim, hves. From Proto-Germanic *hwaz (“who”), cognate with English who, German wer, Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐍃 (ƕas). The pronoun goes back to Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.

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