Do question words count as subjects?
The ones that start with "W"- Sorry this is a silly question, but I am not 100% sure, I am just afraid I could come across this.+This is such a stupid questionDoes the word "dann" count as a subject?

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Do question words count as subjects?
The ones that start with "W"- Sorry this is a silly question, but I am not 100% sure, I am just afraid I could come across this.+This is such a stupid questionDoes the word "dann" count as a subject?

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I think "who" and "what" can function als the Subject of a sentence when they are replacing the acting noun:

Wer hat den Kuchen gegessen? (Tom hat den Kuchen gegessen.)
Was fliegt da oben? (Ein Flugzeug fliegt da oben.)

The other question words (wann, wo, weshalb, etc.) can't work as subjects since they can't act.

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