कोई
Appearance
See also: कई
Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀇 m sg (koi, “someone, something”, nominative). See there for more. Cognate to Awadhi कोई (koī), Braj कोऊ (koū), Punjabi ਕੋਈ (koī), Gujarati કોઈ (koī), Marathi कुणी (kuṇī), Bengali কেউ (keu), Bhojpuri केऊ (kēū), Assamese কেও (keü), Sinhalese කොයි (koyi).
Originally the masculine nominative singular form of a paradigm whose neuter form became कुछ (kuch) and genitive form became किसी (kisī). See 𑀓𑀺𑀁𑀘𑀺 (kiṃci) and 𑀓𑀲𑁆𑀲𑀇 (kassaï) for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]कोई • (koī) (Urdu spelling کوئی)
Pronoun
[edit]कोई • (koī) m or f (Urdu spelling کوئی)
Declension
[edit]Pronoun declension of कोई
Coordinate terms
[edit]type | interrogative | relative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | indefinite | ||
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basic | non-emphatic | कौन (kaun, “who?”), क्या (kyā, “what?”) |
जो (jo) | यह (yah) | वह (vah) | कुछ (kuch), कोई (koī), कुछ-न-कुछ (kuch-na-kuch), कोई-न-कोई (koī-na-koī) | |
emphatic | - | जो भी (jo bhī) | यही (yahī) | वही (vahī) | कोई भी (koī bhī), कुछ भी (kuch bhī) | ||
time | non-emphatic | कब (kab) | जब (jab) | अब (ab) | तब (tab) | कभी (kabhī) | |
emphatic | - | जभी (jabhī) | अभी (abhī) | तभी (tabhī) | कभी भी (kabhī bhī) | ||
place | non-emphatic | कहाँ (kahā̃) | जहाँ (jahā̃) | यहाँ (yahā̃) | वहाँ (vahā̃) | कहीं (kahī̃, “somewhere”) | |
emphatic | - | जहीं (jahī̃) | यहीं (yahī̃) | वहीं (vahī̃) | कहीं भी (kahī̃ bhī, “anywhere”) | ||
quantity | कितना (kitnā) | जितना (jitnā) | इतना (itnā) | उतना (utnā) | - | ||
direction | किधर (kidhar) | जिधर (jidhar) | इधर (idhar) | उधर (udhar) | - | ||
quality | कैसा (kaisā) | जैसा (jaisā) | ऐसा (aisā) | वैसा (vaisā), तैसा m (taisā) | कोई सा (koī sā) | ||
manner | कैसे (kaise) | जैसे (jaise) | ऐसे (aise), | वैसे (vaise), तैसे (taise) | - | ||
reason/manner | क्यों (kyõ) | ज्यों (jyõ) | क्योंकि (kyõki), यों (yõ) | त्यों (tyõ) |
Derived terms
[edit]- कोई भी (koī bhī)
Related terms
[edit]- कुछ (kuch) (inanimate singular, animate/inanimate plural (some))
- कई (kaī) (animate/inanimate plural (several))
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कोई”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Nepali
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]कोई • (koī)
- Pronunciation spelling of कोही (kohī).
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