Interrogative pronouns (прашални заменки) refer to an unknown person, object, quality or quantity and agree with the noun they denote in gender and number. Personal interrogative pronouns have two cases, nominative and genitive. There are also accusative and dative forms: кого and кому, respectively. The more analytical construction на кого is an optional alternative for the dative form. They are also used with nonhuman beings (animals and objects). Quality interrogative pronouns are used for asking one to specify the word in question. They are translated in English as what/what kind of/what sort of.
| Interrogative pronouns | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Personal | For quality | |||
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | ||
| Masculine | кој (who) | кого (whom) | кому (на кого) (to whom) | чиј (whose) | каков |
| Feminine | која | кого | кому (на кого) | чија | каква |
| Neuter | кое | кого | кому (на кого) | чие | какво |
| Plural |
кои | кого | кому (на кого) | чии | какви |
There is only one interrogative pronoun for quantity — колку and it is invariant for gender and number. It is used before plural nouns to ask about their quantity (then it is translated as how much/how many), and before an adjective or adverb to ask about the extent, degree, age, etc., of something or somebody (translated as how).
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