📘 Grammatik · Unit 16 · 1/15

Pronominaladverbien

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Example

Rule

darauf, davon, damit, worauf, wovon, womit replace preposition + thing. For people, the preposition stays.

Practise

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da + preposition for the answer, wo + preposition for the question. If the preposition begins with a vowel, an -r- is inserted between them.

This is the only question you need to ask yourself. With people, the preposition stays and a pronoun is used.

Very often the pronominal adverb announces a dass clause or an infinitive group. Without it, the sentence would be grammatically incomplete.

Ich freue mich darauf, dich zu sehen.I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Wir denken darüber nach, ob wir umziehen.We are thinking about whether we should move.
Es hängt davon ab, wie viel es kostet.It depends on how much it costs.
Ich bin dafür, dass wir früher anfangen.I am in favour of us starting earlier.

Auf was wartest du? Worauf wartest du?

For things you form wo(r) + preposition.

Ich freue mich darauf ihn. Ich freue mich auf ihn.

With people, the preposition is used with a pronoun.

Ich freue mich, dich zu sehen darauf. Ich freue mich darauf, dich zu sehen.

The pronominal adverb stands before the comma.

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