Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns (въпросителни местоимения) 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 (кой, when it refers to a person and is used without a noun, also has Accusative and Dative forms - кого and кому respectively). 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/
Number |
Personal | For quality | |||
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | ||
| Masculine | кой (who) | кого (whom) | кому / на кого (to whom) | чий/чия/чие/чии (whose) | какъв |
| Feminine | коя | кого | кому / на кого | чий/чия/чие/чии (whose) | каква |
| Neuter | кое | кого | кому / на кого | чий/чия/чие/чии (whose) | какво |
| Plural | кои | кого | кому / на кого | чий/чия/чие/чии (whose) | какви |
There is only one interrogative pronoun for quantity—колко—and it doesn't have any gender or number forms. 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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