кто (kto)
- alternative spelling ofкъто(kŭto)
1377,Dmitry of Suzdal,Laurentian Codex[1], page 1:кто въ києвѣ нача первѣє кнѧжит и ѿкуду рускаꙗ ꙁемлѧ стала єсть⁘- kto vŭ kijevě nača pervěje knęžit i otŭkudu ruskaja zemlę stala jestĭ⁘
- Who in Kiev first started to reign and whence the Russian land has started to be.
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “къто”, inМатеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][2] (in Russian), volume 1(А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences,column1415
Inherited fromOld East Slavicкъто(kŭto), fromProto-Slavic*kъto, fromProto-Indo-European*kʷós.
кто• (kto) m
- (interrogative)who
- Ктоэ́то? ―Kto éto? ―Who’s this?
- Янезна́ю,ктоэ́тосде́лал. ―Ja ne znáju,kto éto sdélal. ―I don’t knowwho did this.
- (relative)who
- Тот,ктоэ́тосде́лал. ―Tot,kto éto sdélal. ―The onewho did it.
Declension ofкто
| singular |
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| nominative | кто́ któ |
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| genitive | кого́ kovó |
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| dative | кому́ komú |
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| accusative | кого́ kovó |
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| instrumental | ке́м kém |
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| prepositional | ко́м kóm |
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Pre-reform declension ofкто
CategoryRussian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷe- not found
кто ? (Latin spellingkto)
- obsolete form ofтко