কি

• কিহ (kih)

From Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what, which”). Compare Punjabi ਕੀ (kī), Gujarati કિયું (kiyũ), Marathi की (kī), Bengali কী (ki), Hindustani क्या (kyā) / کیا (kyā).

• IPA^(key): /ki/, /kiː/

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কি • (ki)

1. what?

   তাইৰ নাম কি? ― tair nam ki? ― What is her name?

   তুমি আহি আছা নেকি? ― tumi ahi asa neki? ― You are coming or-what? (Are you coming?)

Declension of কি
	Singular	Plural
nominative	কি (ki)	কি কি (ki ki)
objective	কিহক (kihok)	কিহক কিহক (kihok kihok)
genitive	কিহৰ (kihor)	কিহৰ কিহৰ (kihor kihor)
locative	কিহত (kihot)	কিহত কিহত (kihot kihot)
ergative	কিহে (kihe)	কিহে কিহে (kihe kihe)

• যি (zi)

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /ki/, [ˈkiː], [ˈkiˑ]

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• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /ki/, [ˈkiː], [ˈkiˑ]

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Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀺 (ki), from Sanskrit किम् (kim).

কি • (ki)

1. Forms yes or no questions when placed in the second or final position of a sentence.

   তোমার কি কুকুর আছে? ― tōmar ki kukur ache? ― Do you have a dog?

   তোমার কুকুর আছে কি? ― tōmar kukur ache ki? ― Do you have a dog?

In this usage, it does not have a direct translation as a word in English, it simply makes a statement into a question.

	Nominative	Objective	Genitive	Locative
Singular	কি (ki)		কিসের (kiśer)	কিসে (kiśe)

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কি • (ki)

1. (interrogative, often proscribed) what?
2. (rhetorical, often proscribed) such, what, how

The usage of কি as a pronoun has been often proscribed and replaced with কী (ki) in recent times.

Transliteration of English key.

কি • (ki)

1. (computing) key (one of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters)

• কিবোর্ড (kibōrḍo)

কি (ki)

1. (interrogative) what