Pronouns exercises What is a pronoun? SIL International

Exclamative pronouns are used to, indeed, exclaim. To be more specific, to express an emotion like admiration, disgust, or surprise with a certain quality: "What horrible wheather!" or: "Such lovely children!"

If you already went through the other pronoun pages, you may recognize several of the pronouns. Wat can also function as a relative or interrogative pronoun and zo'n and zulke were discussed in the chapter about demonstrative pronouns.

Zo'n

We use zo'n before singular nouns. For plural nouns, we have to use zulke. However, in colloquial Dutch, you will often hear zo'n before plural nouns as well.

Wat and hoe

Wat and hoe are interchangeable but hoe is a bit more formal. We only place them before adjectives, not before nouns.

Wat een

Although we normally place the article een before singular nouns, the expression wat een can be used for plural nouns as well. The nice thing about wat een is that we do not have to inflect it.

Zulk and zulke

We use zulk and zulke before uncountable nouns and before plural nouns. If we use it before an uncountable het-noun, we say zulk, in all other cases zulke.

The examples of wine and beer are considered uncountable because we are referring to the general categories 'beer' and 'wine'. Of course, we can also talk about specific beers and wines, in which case we can actually count them.