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Relativsätze mit wer und was (Wer …, der …; alles, was …)
'Whoever is late has to stay outside', 'That's all I know', 'What you are saying is not true' — in these sentences, the relative clause does not refer to a specific noun, but to a person in general or a thing. In German, 'wer' (person) and 'was' (thing) are used for this. They appear very often in proverbs, news, and B2 texts.
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'Whoever is late has to stay outside', 'That's all I know', 'What you are saying is not true' — in these sentences, the relative clause does not refer to a specific noun, but to a person in general or a thing. In German, 'wer' (person) and 'was' (thing) are used for this. They appear very often in proverbs, news, and B2 texts.
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