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Old East Slavic
Pronoun
кто (kto)
- Alternative spelling of къто (kŭto)
1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex, page 1:кто въ києвѣ нача первѣє кнѧжит и ѿкуду рускаꙗ ꙁемлѧ стала єсть⁘- kto vŭ kievě nača pervěe knęžit i otŭkudu ruskaja zemlę stala estĭ⁘
- Who in Kiev first started to reign and whence the Russian land has started to be.
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “къто”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1415
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic къто (kŭto), from Proto-Slavic *kъto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
кто • (kto) m
- (interrogative) who
- Кто э́то? ― Kto éto? ― Who’s this?
- Я не зна́ю, кто э́то сде́лал. ― Ja ne znáju, kto éto sdélal. ― I don’t know who did this.
- (relative) who
- Тот, кто э́то сде́лал. ― Tot, kto éto sdélal. ― The one who did it.
Declension
Declension of кто
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singular
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nominative
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кто́ któ
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genitive
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кого́ kovó
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dative
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кому́ komú
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accusative
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кого́ kovó
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instrumental
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ке́м kém
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prepositional
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ко́м kóm
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Pre-reform declension of кто
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singular
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nominative
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кто́ któ
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genitive
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кого́ kovó
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dative
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кому́ komú
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accusative
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кого́ kovó
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instrumental
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кѣ́мъ kě́m
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prepositional
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ко́мъ kóm
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Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Pronoun
кто (Latin spelling kto)
- Obsolete form of тко.