hansı

See also: Hansi

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		һансы
Abjad		هانسی

From Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”).

hansı

(interrogative) which
Hansı saatda...?
At what time... ?
(literally, “In which hour...?”)
(relative) which
Əlifbamız, hansı ki türk əlifbasına yaxın idi, dəyişildi.^[1]
Our alphabet, which was close to the Turkish alphabet, was changed.
whichever, whatever
Hansı padşahla dava eləsəm, onun torpağını torba ilə daşımağa gücüm çatar^[1]
Whichever king I make war with, I have the power to carry his earth away in a bag.

Hansı işə əl atsam, onu qadağan eləyir^[1]
Whatever work I take on, he forbids it.

Kim hansı oğlanı istəyirsə, almanı ona atsın.^[1]
Which boy she wishes, let her throw the apple to him.
(literally, “Whoever wants whichever boy, let them throw the apple to him.”)

hansı

This pronoun is one of several Azerbaijani pronouns which are declined like possessive forms in the singular (see more Azerbaijani pronouns which are declined like possessive forms in the singular).

Declension of hansı

English	Azerbaijani
what	nə, (dialectal) nəmənə
who	kim
which	hansı
which (in a numbered series)	neçənci
who (by occupation)	nəçi
who (by origin)	haralı
where (which place)	hara, hayan, (colloquial) hanı, (dialectal) həncəri
where (at which place)	harada, hayanda
whither (to which place)	hara, haraya, hayana
whence (from which place)	haradan, hayandan
when	nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, (colloquial) havaxt
why	niyə, nə üçün, neyçün
how	necə, nətər, nə təhər, (archaic) nə tövr, nə cür, (dialectal) həncəri
how much	nə qədər
how many	neçə

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Authier, Gilles (2012) “New strategies for relative clauses in Azeri and Apsheron Tat”, in Gast, Volker, editors, Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs; 249), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN