Aside from their highly inflected forms, German relative pronouns are less complicated than English. There are two varieties. The more common one is based on the definite article "der", "die", "das", but with distinctive forms in the genitive ("dessen", "deren") and in the dative plural ("denen"). Etymologically this is related to English "that". The second, which is more literary and used for emphasis, is the relative use of "welcher", "welche", "welches", comparable with English "which". As in most Germanic languages, including Old English, both of these inflect according to gender, case and number. They get their gender and number from the noun they modify, but the case from their function in their own clause.