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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”).
Pronunciation
Determiner
hansı
- (interrogative) which
Hansı saatda...?- At what time... ?
- (literally, “In which hour...?”)
- (relative) which
Əlifbamız, hansı ki türk əlifbasına yaxın idi, dəyişildi.[1]- Our alphabet, which was close to the Turkish alphabet, was changed.
- whichever, whatever
Hansı padşahla dava eləsəm, onun torpağını torba ilə daşımağa gücüm çatar[1]- Whichever king I make war with, I have the power to carry his earth away in a bag.
Hansı işə əl atsam, onu qadağan eləyir[1]- Whatever work I take on, he forbids it.
Kim hansı oğlanı istəyirsə, almanı ona atsın.[1]- Which boy she wishes, let her throw the apple to him.
- (literally, “Whoever wants whichever boy, let them throw the apple to him.”)
Pronoun
hansı
- (interrogative) which
- Hansını istəyirsən? ― Which one do you want?
Usage notes
Declension
This pronoun is one of several Azerbaijani pronouns which are declined like possessive forms in the singular (see more Azerbaijani pronouns which are declined like possessive forms in the singular).
See also
| English
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Azerbaijani
|
| what
|
nə, (dialectal) nəmənə
|
| who
|
kim
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| which
|
hansı
|
| which (in a numbered series)
|
neçənci
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| who (by occupation)
|
nəçi
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| who (by origin)
|
haralı
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| where (which place)
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hara, hayan, (colloquial) hanı, (dialectal) həncəri
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| where (at which place)
|
harada, hayanda
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| whither (to which place)
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hara, haraya, hayana
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| whence (from which place)
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haradan, hayandan
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| when
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nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, (colloquial) havaxt
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| why
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niyə, nə üçün, neyçün
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| how
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necə, nətər, nə təhər, (archaic) nə tövr, nə cür, (dialectal) həncəri
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| how much
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nə qədər
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| how many
|
neçə
|
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Authier, Gilles (2012) “New strategies for relative clauses in Azeri and Apsheron Tat”, in Gast, Volker, editors, Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs; 249), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN