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Translation

who?; what?

Examples

?

Who are you?

?

What are you doing?

?

Whose book is it?

?

Who are you saying this to?

venerit, voca.

If anyone comes, call me.

asks "who?" and "what?". The rest of the paradigm is shared with the relative: genitive , dative , accusative (neuter ), ablative and . The case is chosen by the word's job in its own clause, exactly as for a noun, which is why "whose book" is and "to whom" is .

After , , and it drops the question and means "anyone, anything" instead. The tag every Latin class learns is "after the ali- falls away": is with the prefix gone. Keep it apart from the relative , , , which introduces a clause describing a noun you have already named.

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