hvem
Danish edit
Etymology edit
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 In Old West Norse, the nominative and accusative of this pronoun has been replaced by another pronoun, hverr, but the dative and genitive are still extant: hveim, hves.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, *kʷis.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
hvem (neuter hvad, genitive hvis)
- (interrogative) who
- Hvem er du?
- Who are you?
- Hun ved godt, hvis cykel det er
- She knows whose bike it is
- (relative) who, that
- De mennesker, for hvem livet indebærer hårdt arbejde
- The people for whom life is hard work
- Han er i en by, hvis navn han ikke kan udtale
- He is in a town, the name of which he cannot pronounce
References edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Danish hvem, from Old Norse hveim. Known in a runic spelling as huem (with a bind rune) in a magical manuscript from around 1650.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
hvem
- (interrogative) who
- Hvem er du? ― Who are you?
- (relative) who, whom
- Hvem spurte du? ― Whom did you ask?
- Av hvem? ― By whom?
- (dialectal, Drammen) which