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246. Interrogative and relative words (pronouns, adverbs and particles) and all conjunctions always take the first place. In interrogative sentences the predicate always precedes the subject, if the latter is not itself the interrogative word: hvad har du der? What have you got there? if the predicate is a compound form of the verb the subject is placed immediately after the auxiliary: hvor har du været? Where have you been.

In relative sentences the subject follows immediately after the relative word, if this latter is not itself subject: det Hus, som du har kjöbt er meget daarligt the house, which you have bought is very poor. Overalt, hvor han har været, har han gjort sig forhadt wherever he has been he has made himself disliked.

After conjunctions the words as a rule follow in the ordinary succession: naar jeg kommer til Byen skal jeg kjöbe mig nye Klæder when I go to town I shall buy myself a new suit of clothes.