Translation
who; which
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Examples
?
Who are you?
?
Whom did you see?
, , .
The person who came is good.
?
Which of you knows the truth?
, .
I do not know which language he speaks.
asks "who" or "which one" and also links a relative clause, so it covers English "who", "whom" and "which" in one word. It behaves like a noun or an adjective rather than a fixed particle: -n when it is the object ( ?) and -j in the plural ( ?), with both together in . Placed before a noun it means "which": , . It sits in the correlative table beside ("that one"), ("every one") and ("nobody").
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(3)Grammar articles
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Esperanto Reported Speech: li diris, ke li venos
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 4: kiu, ke, por and 11 more words.