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Chapter 28: Interrogative Phrases

  28.2.3 Declination of the interrogative pronoun wieviel

The interrogative pronoun wieviel can refer to a part of a quantity or to a member of a group. If wieviel refers to a part of a quantity (in meaning of How much?) it is never declined.

Some examples
  Wieviel Mehl willst du?
= How much flour do you want?
  Wieviel Geld brauchst du?
= How much money do you need?
  Von wieviel Mehl träumt er?
= Of how much flour does he dream?
  Von wieviel Geld träumt er?
= Of how much money does he dream?

If wieviele refers to a member of a group (in meaning of How many?) the number, the gender and the declination of wieviele have to correspond. Wieviele is logically always plural. In plural there is no difference between feminine, neutral and masculine nouns. There are in Accusative / Nominative and in Dative / Genitive.
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