3. MORPHOLOGY
It is also used as an emphatic negation.
- laD,kI @yaa hO ̧ naaja,uk fUla hO.
larki: kya: h ́, na:zuk phu:l h ́.
girl what is delicate flower is
It is not a girl; it is a delicate flower.
(What a girl! Just like a delicate flower.)
Interrogative adverbial forms related to these pronouns are: kba kab
‘when,’ kOsaa kaisa: ‘how,’ kaOnasaa kønsa: ‘which one,’ iktnaa kitna: ‘how
much.’
3.2.6. Indefinite Pronouns
There are two indefinite pronouns in Hindi: kao[- koi: ‘someone,
somebody’and kuC kuch ‘something.’ kuC kuch is also used as an
adjective (numeral and quantitative) and as an adverb meaning
‘some, a few, a little, partly.’ Similarly, kao[- koi: can be used as an
adverb in the sense of ‘some, about.’ It can refer to ‘something’ if
used with - saa -sa:/-saI -si: = kao[- saa koi: sa:/ kao[- saI koi: si:. kao[- koi: may
also be used as the plural form to indicate ‘some people.’
3.2.7. Oblique Forms of Pronouns
Whereas the same case-signs namely nao ne, kao ko, k sao se, maOM mẽ, pr par
and ka ka: are attached to pronouns as they are attached to nouns, in
some cases the oblique forms of pronouns are formed differently.
Direct Oblique
Sg Pl Sg Pl
yah yeh yao ye [sa is [na in
vah vah vao ve ]sa us ]na un
jaao jo jaao jo ijasa jis ijana jin
saao so saao so itsa tis itna tin
kao[- koi: kao[- koi: iksaI kisi: ikMhIM kinhĩ:
Note that (i) when the case-signs are added the singular forms yah
yeh, vah vah, jaao jo, and saao so change to [sa is, ]sa us, ijasa jis and itsa tis
respectively; kaOna køn and @yaa kya: change to iksa kis; and kuC kuch
changes to iksaI kisi:. (ii) In the plural, except before nao ne, these