Upper Sorbian Grammar

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Interrogative pronouns

Upper Sorbian has the following declinable interrogative pronouns: štó who, što what, kajki what kind of, kotry which, čeji whose.

The pronouns štó and što are only used in singular. Štó is inherently masculine and što is inherently neuter. All the words that reffer to these pronouns in a sentence and are inflected for number and/or gender must take the singular masculine and singular neuter form respectively, even if the noun in question is of another number and gender.

Štó	je	přišoł?
who Nom.	be 3.sing.pres.	come past.part. sing.masc.
subject	compound verb
Who has come?

Što	je	so	stało?
what Nom.	be 3.sing.pres.	refl.	happen past.part. sing.neut.
subject	compound verb
What has happened?

The pronouns kajki, kotry and čeji decline for case, number and gender.

Declension

štó who and što what

N	štó	što
G	koho	čeho
D	komu	čemu
A	koho	što, čo
I	(z) kim	(z) čim
L	(w) kim	(w) čim

The accusative of što is čo when it stands after a preposition and što in all other cases.

kajki what kind of

	singular				dual		plural
	masc.		fem.	neut.	vir.	nonvir.	vir.	nonvir.
N	kajki		kajka	kajke	kajkaj	kajkej	kajcy	kajke
G	kajkeho		kajkeje	kajkeho	kajkeju		kajkich
D	kajkemu		kajkej	kajkemu	kajkimaj		kajkim
A	kajkeho	kajki	kajku	kajke	kajkeju	kajkej	kajkich	kajke
I	(z) kajkim		(z) kajkej	(z) kajkim	(z) kajkimaj		(z) kajkimi
L	(w) kajkim		(w) kajkej	(w) kajkim	(w) kajkimaj		(w) kajkich

kotry which

	singular				dual		plural
	masc.		fem.	neut.	vir.	nonvir.	vir.	nonvir.
N	kotry		kotra	kotre	kotraj	kotrej	kotři	kotre
G	kotreho		kotreje	kotreho	kotreju		kotrych
D	kotremu		kotrej	kotremu	kotrymaj		kotrym
A	kotry	kotreho	kotru	kotre	kotreju	kotrej	kotrych	kotre
I	(z) kotrym		(z) kotrej	(z) kotrym	(z) kotrymaj		(z) kotrymi
L	(w) kotrym		(w) kotrej	(w) kotrym	(w) kotrymaj		(w) kotrych

čeji whose

	singular				dual		plural
	masc.		fem.	neut.	vir.	nonvir.	vir.	nonvir.
N	čeji		čeja	čeje	čejej		čeji	čeje
G	čejeho		čejeje	čejeho	čejeju		čejich
D	čejemu		čejej	čejemu	čejimaj		čejim
A	čeji	čejeho	čeju	čeje	čejeju	čejej	čejich	čeje
I	(z) čejim		(z) čejej	(z) čejim	(z) čejimaj		(z) čejimi
L	(w) čejim		(w) čejej	(w) čejim	(w) čejimaj		(w) čejich

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