To be or not to be like Shakespeare - archaic English words

February 21, 2025Steve Keating

Language changes over time. One example particularly relevant to German speakers is the use of “whom”. “Who” refers to the subject of a sentence and “whom” to the object. For example:

The person who is over there is tall. The relative pronoun “who” refers to the word before it, “person”, which is the subject of the sentence.