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Demonstrative pronouns and determiners |
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The demonstrative pronouns and determiners are divided into the following classes:
Demonstrative pronouns are used to express a strong reference to a person, a thing, a fact. They are either an determiner of a noun or a substitute for a noun.
They refer anaphorically to something mentioned before, or cataphorically to something that will be said in what follows:
anaphoric (backward) reference:
| Wer ist |
der Mann? |
Den |
habe ich hier noch nie gesehen. |
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cataphoric (forward) reference:
| Wir laden |
diejenigen |
ein, |
die |
wir gut mögen. |
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