deren meaning and definition in german

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Among unexercised users of formal standard German, one can frequently read or hear dessen when deren would be correct (or occasionally vice versa), since neither of these forms is used in normal vernacular German.

relative whose, of which (genitive of die, both inflected forms of der).
demonstrative her, their, the latter's (genitive of die, both inflected forms of der)