hansı

See also: Hansi

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic һансы
Abjad هانسی

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hɑnˈsɯ]
  • Audio(file)

Determiner

hansı

  1. (interrogative) which
    Hansı saatda...?
    At what time... ?
    (literally, “In which hour...?”)
  2. (relative) which
    Əlifbamız, hansı ki türk əlifbasına yaxın idi, dəyişildi.[1]
    Our alphabet, which was close to the Turkish alphabet, was changed.
  3. 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.”)

Pronoun

hansı

  1. (interrogative) which
    Hansını istəyirsən? ― Which one do you want?

Usage notes

Declension

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
singular plural
nominative hansı hansılar
accusative hansını hansıları
dative hansına hansılara
locative hansında hansılarda
ablative hansından hansılardan
genitive hansının hansıların

See also
Azerbaijani interrogative pro-forms
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

References
  1. 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
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