Pronouns

das Frageadverb (worauf, womit, wofür)

In English: wo-compound (question form)

A question word made of wo (or wor before a vowel) + a preposition. It asks about a thing after a verb with a preposition. For a person, German uses the preposition + wen or wem: auf wen, mit wem.

Example: Worauf wartest du? Ich warte auf den Bus.

Related lessons

• Verbs with prepositions: worauf, darauf, auf wen (B2)
• Relative clauses with prepositions, dessen, deren, was and wo (B2)

See also

das Pronominaladverb das Interrogativpronomen / das Fragewort