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Interrogative Pronouns

The interrogative pronouns are کون kaun 'who' and کیا kyaa 'what'. Both pronouns inflect for case and number in the following way:

	Singular	Plural
Direct	کیا kyaa 'what?', کون kaun 'who?'	کیا kyaa, کون kaun
Oblique	کس kis	کن kin

In the plural, an interrogative pronoun may be reduplicated in order to emphasize plurality:

میز پر کیا کیا چیزیں ھیں ؟

mez par kyaa kyaa ciizeN haiN

'what (literally: 'what what') things are there on the table?'

اس بس میں کون کون تھا ؟

us bas meN kaun kaun thaa?

'who (literally: 'who who') was in that bus?'.

See also:

• Pronouns
• Personal Pronouns
• Demonstrative Pronouns
• Possessive Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Relative Pronouns
• Indefinite Pronouns
• Definite Pronouns
• Pronominal Adjectives
• Pronominal Adverbs
• Simple Sentences

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