Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions

I should have prefaced this with IIRC!

I do recall Woher now, but really, I haven't spoken German of any
consequence since 1979 so I guess I didn't do too bad :-)
Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Theiling [mailto:theiling@absint.de]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:07 AM
> To: scott@kohath.org
> Subject: Re: New Member With Questions
>
>
> Hi!
>
> "Scott W. Hlad" <scott@...> writes:
> > Wovon kommst du?
>
> Not quite correct, it would be
>
>   ,Woher kommst Du?'
>
> But all the explanations are correct:
>
>   wo (where) + her (not really translatable to *one* word,
>                     in this context, something like `to here')
>
> `Wovon' is also a German word, used in e.g.:
>
>   ,Wovon sprichst Du?'
>   What do you talk about?
>
> (wo=von = where + of/from)
>
> There are more: wohin, wobei, wodurch, woran, worin, worauf... Many
> prepositions can be contracted with `wo' (where?) or `da' (there).
>
> **Henrik