The interrogative pronouns

Crimean Gothic forms its interrogative pronouns upon the old Indo-european root *kwes, gone quite regularly to we. Interrogative pronouns can be used as adjectives, so that there is no equivalent of the English distinction between what and which :

we ist zet-her : what is that
we hus ist zinet : which house is yours

They have a masculine, a feminine and a neuter form and they do aggree with the noun or the personn they stand for.

 

Masculine

Neuter

Feminine

Nominative

wes

we

we

Accusative

wen

we

we

Genitive

wes

wes

wires

Dative

wem

wem

wire

Nominative

we

we

wes

Accusative

wen

we

wes

Genitive

wer

wer

wire

Dative

wem

wem

wem


At the contrary of what happens in English, preposition are put before the interrogative, but in indirect clause, where they are regularly put at the end of the sentence.
F�r wem idjes zu in hemen : why did you go to the village
Ich wet ne wem is in hemen idje f�r : I do not know why he went to the village

Other interrogative

Crimean Gothic uses a relatively great number of interrogative adverbs. They are mostly invariable.

Wer : where
wen : when

we�re : where from

we� : where (with movement)

wewe : how

wef�r : why

we�ren : until when

we�en : since when

Wel�� : how great

 

 

 

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