In Beginners’ Latin we also looked at the pronouns for statements and questions, meaning ‘who’, ‘which’ and ‘that’, and ‘who?’ and ‘which?’. These are called relative and interrogative pronouns. In addition to these, it is important to also be aware of the pronoun meaning ‘a certain’. This is called an indefinite pronoun.
| Relative pronoun who, which, that |
Interrogative pronoun who? which? |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Femine | Neuter |
| Nominative | qui | que | quod | quis? | quis? | quid? |
| Accusative | quem | quam | quod | quem? | quem? | quid? |
| Genitive | cuius | cuius | cuius | cuius? | cuius? | cuius? |
| Dative | cui | cui | cui | cui? | cui? | cui? |
| Ablative | quo | qua | quo | quo? | qua? | quo? |
| Plural | ||||||
| Nominative | qui | que | que | qui? | que? | que? |
| Accusative | quos | quas | que | quos? | quas? | que? |
| Genitive | quorum | quarum | quorum | quorum? | quarum? | quorum? |
| Dative | quibus | quibus | quibus | quibus? | quibus? | quibus? |
| Ablative | quibus | quibus | quibus | quibus? | quibus? | quibus? |
The indefinite pronoun is a compound of the relative pronoun with the ending ‘-dam’. The only difference is that the ‘-m’ of the relative pronoun may change to an ‘-n’ before the ‘-dam’ ending.
| Indefinite pronoun a certain |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | quidam | quedam | quoddam |
| Accusative | quendam | quandam | quoddam |
| Genitive | cuiusdam | cuiusdam | cuiusdam |
| Dative | cuidam | cuidam | cuidam |
| Ablative | quodam | quadam | quodam |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | quidam | quedam | quedam |
| Accusative | quosdam | quasdam | quedam |
| Genitive | quorundam | quarundam | quorundam |
| Dative | quibusdam | quibusdam | quibusdam |
| Ablative | quibusdam | quibusdam | quibusdam |
Other indefinite pronouns you may come across in documents include:
Are you confident with:
