28.2.3.1
Nominative / Accusative / Dative / Genitive of the interrogative
pronoun wieviele
28.2.3.1.1
Nominative
Adjectival
interrogative pronoun
Wieviele Menschen
werden kommen?
= How many people are going to come?
Substantival
interrogative pronoun
Wieviele wissen
es?
= How many know about this?
28.2.3.1.2 Accusative
The Accusative is need if the question goes after a direct
object or the preposition requires an Accusative. There
is no difference between the substantival and the adjectival
interrogative pronoun.
Adjectival
interrogative pronoun
Wieviele Kuchen
backst du?
= How many cakes to you bake?
Wieviele Bücher
hast du gelesen?
= How many books did you read?
Substantival
interrogative pronoun
An wieviele
hast du gedacht?
= How many did you think of?
Für wieviele
hast du gekocht?
= For how many did you cook?
28.2.3.1.3 Dative
Adjectival
interrogative pronoun
Von wievielen
Kuchen hast
du eine Probe genommen?
= Of how many cakes did you take a sample?
Von wievielen
Büchern konntest
du dir den Inhalt merken?
= Of how many books could you remember the
content?
Auf wievielen
Stühlen sitzt
du?
= On how many chairs do you sit?
Substantival
interrogative pronoun
Wievielen gibst
du Geld?
= How many did you give money?
Wievielen würdest
du vertrauen?
= How many would you trust?
28.2.3.1.4 Genitive
The Genitive of wieviele
is theoretically possible but nobody uses it. Usually
a preposition would be used.
Adjectival
interrogative pronoun
Das Geld wievieler
Leute hat er gestohlen?
= How many people's money did he steal?
Von wievielen Leuten
hat er Geld gestohlen?
= The money of how many people did he steal?
Substantival
interrogative pronoun?
Das Geld wievieler
hat er gestohlen?
= The money of how many did he steal?
Von wievielen
hat er Geld gestohlen?
= Of how many did he steal money?
