People and things: relative clauses to define who, which, that

Relative clauses add information about the noun in the main clause, without starting another sentence. English uses relative pronouns ‘who’, ‘that’, ‘which’, while German uses the definite article that matches the noun. In German the relative pronoun kicks the verb to the end of the relative clause; this is called word order three (WO3). Use indefinite pronouns 'jemand' ('someone') or 'niemand' ('no one') instead of a noun when the exact person is unknown. When using 'jemand' or 'niemand' in subject relative clauses, use the relative pronoun 'der' as for masculine nouns.