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5. Interrogative and relative pronouns English interrogative pronouns are united by the meaning of an inquiry about some object (what, who), its properties (whose, which, what), place of some event (where), its time (when), cause (why), manner of existence (how).
Ukrainian interrogative pronouns include: xmo, що, який, чий, котрий, скгльки. They contain the question about a person, an object, some quality, possession and quantity of objects.
Following is the contrastive analysis of interrogative pronouns in both languages. In both languages interrogative pronouns express the question concerning the object (who, what, xmo, що), its quality (what, який), belonging (whose, чий), the place it takes among similar to it objects (which, який, котрий). Part of these pronouns correlates with nouns (who, what, xmo, що), and others - with adjectives (what, whose, which, який, чий, котрий). From them who is used regarding living beings (first of all human beings), which — regarding inanimate objects. The pronoun whose can sometimes be used regarding inanimate objects.
In English only one of these pronouns have forms of the nominative and objective cases (who - whom). But in a conversational language there is a tendency to use the nominative case instead of the objective one (Who (whom) did you ask about it?). So this pronoun also becomes indeclinable similar to other interrogative pronouns.
In Ukrainian all interrogative pronouns are declinable. Pronouns чий, який, котрий have the forms of gender, number and are declinable similar to adjectives.
The peculiarity of English what are its different meanings. This pronoun can be used as a noun (What has happened? "Що тропилось?") and as an adjective (What books did you buy? "Яю книжки ей купили?"); it can refer to objects (What have you brought?) and to persons (What is he? - What is his occupation); this pronoun is used in interrogative and in exclamatory sentences (What a fine weather!).