This is the 12481st most frequent German word.
who
The German word for "who" is **"wer"**.
Question pronoun asking for identification
Wer ist diese Person?
Who is this person?
Relative pronoun introducing a subordinate clause
Die Frau, die dort steht, ist meine Lehrerin.
The woman, who is standing there, is my teacher.
Indirect question pronoun indicating a query within a statement