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hansı

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See also: Hansi

Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic һансы
Abjad هانسی

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ka- (interrogative stem).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [hɑnˈsɯ]
  • Audio:(file)

Determiner

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hansı

  1. (interrogative) which
    Hansı saatda...?
    At what time... ?
    (literally, “In which hour...?”)
  2. (relative) which
    Əlifbamız, hansı ki türk əlifbasına yaxın idi, dəyişildi.[1]
    Our alphabet, which was close to the Turkish alphabet, was changed.
  3. 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

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hansı

  1. (interrogative) which
    Hansını istəyirsən?Which one do you want?

Usage notes

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Declension

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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

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References

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  1. 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