Timeline for In Relative Clause, can Relative Pronoun come before the pronoun/noun being referred to?
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| Apr 22, 2023 at 7:41 | vote | accept | JoyfulPanda | ||
| Apr 22, 2023 at 7:40 | comment | added | JoyfulPanda | It would be great if they just used "den Leute", then everything would be crystal-clear. But here, when I encounter "denen", I immediately think: "Heh, what is this referred to?". | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 23:27 | comment | added | HalvarF | @DavidVogt You have a point there. I meant that denjenigen only has this one meaning, to stand in for what can be expected to be defined later, while jenen is just your standard demonstrative pronoun that could also refer to a group of people that has been mentioned earlier, and it doesn't necessarily create the expectation of a later definition. In a given context that's probably seldom a cause of confusion though. | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 21:08 | comment | added | David Vogt | The answer is clear and correct but I still wonder why denen is lazy or denjenigen more accurate. | |
| Apr 21, 2023 at 20:51 | history | answered | HalvarF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |