(interrogative) who; (when followed by a modifier in elative case, -sta/-stä) whichone (of + a noun referring to people).(indefinite) whoever.(relative) who, whenthepronounreferstothewholeoftheprecedingsentence.Fin:En tiedä, kuka sen teki.Eng:I don't know who did it.Fin:Tässä on mies, joka sen teki.Eng:This is the man who did it.(relative, dialectal) whoShow more (who): ken ( the nominative singular is archaic, see "Inflection" section above)(whoever): kukatahansa, kenShow more The singular forms are sometimes used colloquially instead of the actual plural forms. Ketä is particularly common for keitä. In some dialects ketä is used in place of kuka.Show more From Proto-Finnic ku (from Proto-Uralic ku- ~ ko-) + -ka. Cognate with Estonian kumb (“which”), Hungarian hol (“where”), Forest Enets hōke (“which one”), Nganasan kuninu (“where”), and Kamassian kāmǝ̑n (“if”). Might further be related to Proto-Indo-European kʷi- ~ kʷe- ~ kʷo-, whence the English interrogatives English what, where, who, how derive.Show more Press Esc to closeSource:
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