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====Interrogatives and correlatives==== | |||
The interrogatives ''pis, pil'' "who, what" have their own declension, however similar to the first and second nominal ones. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ ''pis, pil'' "who, what" | |||
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! Nominative | |||
| '''pis'''<br/><small>''who?''</small> || ''pil''<br/><small>''what?''</small> | |||
|- | |||
! Genitive | |||
| colspan=2 | pesy | |||
|- | |||
! Dative | |||
| colspan=2 | pesyém | |||
|- | |||
! Accusative | |||
| pim || pil | |||
|} | |||
The interrogative adjective ''piyos'' "which?" has a different declension, which has similarities to the one of the article in the singular nominative, and with nominal ones in other forms: | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | !! colspan=3 | Singular !! colspan=3 | Plural | |||
|- | |||
! Masculine !! Neuter !! Feminine !! Masculine !! Neuter !! Feminine | |||
|- | |||
! Nominative | |||
| piyos || piyat || piyá || piyí || piyá || piyehes | |||
|- | |||
! Genitive | |||
| colspan=2 | piyosy || pissyá || colspan=3 | piyásam | |||
|- | |||
! Dative | |||
| colspan=2 | piyási || pissyehi || colspan=2 | piyábi | |||
|- | |||
! Accusative | |||
| piyom || piyat || piyam || piyás || piyá || piyás | |||
|} | |||
The interrogative pronoun-adjective ''pihác?'' "how much?" and the corresponding correlative ''yosác'' "as much" follow nominal declensions (first for the pronouns and the masculine adjective, second and third respectively for the feminine and neuter, cf. the forms ''pihátá, pihátom'') | |||
The interrogatives/correlatives ''pop'' "when", ''pade'' "where", ''pé'' "how", ''pómat'' "why?" and ''yámat'' "because" are adverbials. | |||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||