Latin quis/quid and qui/quae/quod song (interrogative adjective/pronoun and relative pronoun)

This song reviews the forms for the interrogative adjective, relative pronoun, and interrogative pronoun. And the differences between what they mean and how they're used. Plus some extemporaneous musing about it all....

CORRECTIONS
1:04 "To whom did you give the book?" is actually an example of an interrogative pronoun ("whom"). A correct example of the interrogative adjective here would be "to which student did you give the book?" where "which" is the interrogative adjective, modifying "student."

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LYRICS:
[Interrogative adjective and relative pronoun]

NOM. quī quae quod
GEN. cuius
DAT. cui
ACC. quem quam quod
ABL. quō quā quō

NOM. quī quae quae
GEN. quōrum quārum quōrum
DAT. quibus
ACC. quōs quās quae
ABL. quibus

The interrogative adjective and relative pronoun are the same, at least morphologically (that is in terms of their forms). They mean different things and are used in different ways.

The interrogative is an interrogative, so it asks a question; and it's an adjective, so it modifies a noun. Like, "what book are you reading?" or "what car did you ride in?" or "what person was that?"

Or "to whom did you give that book?" and "what way did you feel?" and "in what place did you most want to be?"

Whereas the relative pronoun is a pronoun so it doesn't modify a noun. And it's not interrogative, so it doesn't introduce a question. Like, "I know that person who you were talking to." "I spent a year in the place in which they were." And "I was studying the thing which they also were studying at that time." And "I know the thing that you have on your mind."

Now the interrogative pronoun:

NOM. quis quis quid
GEN. cuius
DAT. cui
ACC. quem quem quid
ABL. quō quō quō

And the plural is the same as the interrogative adjective and relative pronoun.

These are three different words that start with "q." Three different words that all have the same plural. Three words that mean kind of similar things, "who" and "what" and "which."

But they're different.

Similar but different.

Like so many things in Latin, they're similar but different.

Like how "regat" and "regit" and "reget" all mean different things. The first is present subjunctive, the second is present indicative, and the third is future indicative.



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