Chapter 9: Interrogative and Relative Pronouns

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Chapter 9

Interrogative and Relative Pronouns

   These pronouns follow the same rules as adjectives, declining for gender and case to match the nouns they modify, see Chapter 5 for more details on adjectives.

9.1       The interrogative pronouns

   The pronouns што, what, and хто, who, decline as follows.

Nom.	што	хто
Acc.	што	хто
Gen.	чаго	каго
Dat.	чаму	каму
Instr.	чым	кім
Prep.	аб чым	аб кім

The pronouns нішто, nothing, and ніхто, nobody, decline like што and хто except for the genitive case, for which the accent lies on the middle syllable.

Гэта нішто.	It's nothing.
Я нічога не сказаў.	I didn't say anything
Год таму зразумеў, што ў жыцці я ніхто і нішто.	A year ago I realized that in life, I am a nobody and a nothing.
У пакоі ўжо нікога не было.	There was already noone in the room.

9.3 The pronoun які

The pronoun які declines just like the adjective другі, second, see 5.1 for the complete declension. The pronoun is used as the conjunction which or what. It is also used as an exclamation.

Якую кнігу чытаеш?	Which book are you reading?
Вось кніга, якую чытаю.	This is the book, which I am reading.
Якая дата сёння?	What is the date today?
Якая прыгожая дзяўчына!	What a pretty girl!

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