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There’s a distinctive difference between asking questions about people and objects in English:

Who did you go with yesterday?
With what did you go to the party yesterday?

I know that it’s something similar in German and it involves womit, but I’m not quite sure. Can anyone help me here?

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  • search for an explanation on da-words. The wo-words are the question equivalent – Emanuel Nov 17 '14 at 18:37
  • Sorry, I didn't understand a thing you just said. – warwick Nov 17 '14 at 18:41
  • http://www.canoo.net/services/OnlineGrammar/Satz/Satzglied/Objekt/Praepositional.html?lang=en and: http://yourdailygerman.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/da-words-meaning-german/ and: http://yourdailygerman.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/wo-compounds-worauf-woraus-wovon-meaning-german/ – Emanuel Nov 17 '14 at 20:33

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The difference you are referring to is probably Womit ... ? vs. Mit wem ... ?

To ask for a person-object use mit wem. To ask for a thingy-object use womit.

For Example:

Mit wem warst du gestern bei der Party? (Wer war dabei?)

vs.

Womit warst du gestern bei der Party? (Was war dabei?)

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  • Thanks, that's it I believe.

    Is this question right?

    Mit wem geht sie in der Diskothek?

     – warwick Nov 17 '14 at 18:48
  • and how to ask a question:

    When does he sleep? if you don't mind answering

     – warwick Nov 17 '14 at 18:50
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    @warwick : 1. Yes and no. It's "die Discothek". 2. "Wann schläft er?" But please keep in mind that we are no translation service. Even Google translator could have got this right. – dervonnebenaan Nov 17 '14 at 19:50