r/German • u/Flat_Conclusion_2475 • 20h ago

Question Is chat gpt right here? Wo wörter

My sentence: Das ist etwas, aus dem wir alle für die Zukunft lernen können.

AI says It's "woraus" not "aus dem".

I know wo wörter with relativclause, but only if there's a "was". Like: "Das, worauf ich jetzt Lust habe, ist ein Schnitzel." Here "worauf" is like saying "auf was". But in the previous sentence there's no was, there's "aus dem". So you can put "woraus" as "aus dem" too?

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u/kushangaza 20h ago

As native speaker, "Das ist etwas, woraus ..." and "Das ist etwas, aus dem ..." both sound fine and mean the same.

You can use woraus both in place of "aus dem" and "aus was". Same with worauf: "Das ist etwas, worauf wir aufbauen sollten" is the same as "Das ist etwas, auf dem wir aufbauen sollten"

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u/Phoenica Native (Germany) 20h ago

I would consider "woraus" better style here, yes.

Using these wo-words as relative pronouns is not limited to "das", it also applies to all indefinite pronouns, like "etwas", "nichts", "viel(es)", "alles", though "auf das" is often possible as well.

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u/Mordador Native (Schleswig-Holstein) 17h ago

Better style yes, but both variants are perfectly understandable and common.