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"From which country?"
Translation:Aus welchem Land?
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aus requires the dative case.
Land is neuter.
Put those together and you realise that you need the neuter dative form welchem :)
No. Countries are considered as "containers" that you are inside, so if you come from a country, you come from inside the country (aus dem Land) and not from the outside wall of the country (von dem Land).
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"Aus welchem Lande" is considered unacceptable. But isn't it just literary usage? If so, it's not really incorrect.
This is just a beginner's course, so we tend to stick to regular, everyday language from the 21st century.
Grammar or forms that are poetic or literary or archaic are generally not accepted in either English or German in this course.
Please stick to everyday language.
That would be "From which state?"
"State" (Staat) can be an independent country, but the word "country" (Land) is the usual one in everyday use.
Which is to say, "aus welchem Staat" is perfectly correct. And it happens to be used commonly in EU law, referring to sovereign counties. ;)
it wasn 5 accepted
Probably because you made a mistake -- maybe a small one that you did not notice yourself.
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Why isn't it 'Welchem Land aus'?
Because aus is a preposition, meaning it comes before the thing it modifies. Thus aus welchem Land? with aus before welchem Land.
"Was aus land" was given as an earlier phrase!
I'm not sure where you might have seen that as "given", since that makes no sense at all in German (and land isn't even a German word).
