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| maxval Pentaglot Senior Member Bulgaria maxval.co.nr Joined 5074 days ago 852 posts - 1577 votes  Speaks: Hungarian*, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 3 28 December 2011 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
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When studying Latin interrogative and relative pronouns, I encountered a problem that I am unable to solve by myself. Please help!
In the Wikipedia article about pronouns declension I found the following info: there is a difference between interrogative nominal pronouns, from one side and interrogative adjectival pronouns (that are the same as relative pronouns), from other side, not only in the Singularis Nominativus form, but also in the Singularis Genitivus and Dativus forms: - interrogative nominal pronouns have the forms: cuius and cuī, while - interrogative adjectival pronouns (or relative pronouns) have the forms: cūius and cui. Is this correct? In other textbook I found in BOTH cases the forms are cūius and cuī. Yet, in another textbook I found in BOTH cases the forms are cuius and cui. Which version is correct? Please help! Edited by maxval on 28 December 2011 at 1:42pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5600 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 3 28 December 2011 at 3:04pm | IP Logged |
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Both qui and quis have the genitive cuius, which has the vowel quantity cūiŭs. Macron and breve are no part of Latin orthography, therefore they are printed only in dictionaries and texts for beginners. The same is true for cui. Edited by Cabaire on 28 December 2011 at 3:09pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Lukos Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4844 days ago 8 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 3 of 3 28 December 2011 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
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The correct forms for BOTH are cūius (gen.; long u) and cuī (dat.; long i).
The textbook which gave you cuius and cui seems simply to have omitted marking long vowels; the Wikipedia source is just inconsistent about it. Hope that helps! All the best with Latin. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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