welcher

Alternative forms

 * (UK)

Noun

 * 1) One who welches.
 * 2)  A Welshman or person of Welsh descent.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: maksamatta jättäjä
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:

Etymology
From, from , , from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Determiner

 * 1)  which; what
 * 2)  which
 * 1)  which
 * 1)  which

Pronoun

 * 1)  which (one)
 * 2)  that; which; who; whom
 * 1)  that; which; who; whom

Usage notes

 * When used as an interrogative determiner, some speakers may consider welcher rather formal and may use instead, e.g. Was für eine Farbe hat dein Kleid? instead of Welche Farbe hat dein Kleid?
 * When welcher isn't used as a determiner followed directly by a noun (Welche Farbe ist deine Lieblingsfarbe?) and is directly followed by the verb sein, it is mostly used in neutral form welches for all genders and plural (Welches ist deine Lieblingsfarbe?). When it agrees with the gender and number, it is usually meant as one from a number of given options (Welche (von diesen) ist deine Lieblingsfarbe?)
 * Welcher as a relative pronoun is virtually never used in the vernacular. It occurs more often in literary German, but overusing it is a typical trait of a pretentious style (generally corrected by editors). The normal relative pronoun in all registers of German is and its forms.
 * Welcher and its forms may be used avoid a doubled word. For example
 * Das Lied, welches das Kind vortrug, wurde vor langer Zeit geschrieben.
 * avoids das das. The welches version would still not be preferred in general though.


 * German does not distinguish between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses and relies solely on context to determine which is meant. (See the usage notes at .) Thus and its forms are still preferred when English prefers "which":