ki

See also: Variations of "ki"

ki - Translingual

Symbol

ki

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kikuyu.

ki - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kiː/

Noun

ki (countable and uncountable, plural kis)

  1. A plant native to the Pacific islands and China (Cordyline fruticosa); ti.

Noun

ki (uncountable)

  1. (UK, naval slang) Alternative form of kye (cocoa)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kiː/

Noun

ki (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) Alternative form of chi

Anagrams

ki - Abenaki

Noun

ki

  1. Alternative form of aki

ki - Aimele

Noun

ki

  1. bone

ki - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ci]
  • (Karabakh) IPA: [cin]

Conjunction

ki

  1. that
    • Mən bilirəm ki, bu düzdür.
      • I know that this is right.
    • O mənə demişdir ki, hər şey yaxşı olacaq. Amma olmadı.
      • He told me that everything would be fine. But it wasn't.
  2. to, in order to, so that
    • Mən oraya getmişdim ki, lazım olanları alım.
      • I went there to buy whatever was needed.
    • Onlar onu evə göndərdilər ki, heç kim onu görməsin.
      • They sent him home so that nobody would see him.

ki - Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Preposition

ki

  1. (formal, Naga) Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
    • An kantang ini, para ki papa.
      • This song's for (my) father.
    • Synonym: kay
  2. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) of (expressing possession)
    • Nagkaon ki sira an ikos.
      • The cat ate a fish.
    • Synonym: nin

Derived terms

ki - Breton

Noun

ki m (plural chas or kon)

  1. dog
    • Ar c'hi zo o kousket amañ.
      • The dog is sleeping here.

Derived terms

Mutation

Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehard
singular ki gi c'hi unchanged
plural kon gon c'hon unchanged

ki - Cornish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [kiː]

Noun

ki m (plural keun)

  1. dog

Derived terms

Mutation

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixedmixed after 'th
ki gi hi unchanged unchanged unchanged

ki - Dena'ina

Adverb

ki

  1. again, too, more
  2. furthermore, moreover

ki - Eastern Ojibwa

Noun

ki inan

  1. earth

ki - Fijian

Preposition

ki

  1. to, for, towards (used for common nouns and names of places)
  2. at (used for locations)

ki - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈki(ː)/, [ˈk̟i(ː)]
  • Syllabification: ki

Noun

ki

  1. chi, qi (life force in Chinese medicine)

Declension

When pronounced /kiː/:

Inflection of ki (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative ki kit
genitive kin kiden kitten
partitive kitä kitä
illative kiin kihin
Possessive forms of ki (type maa)

ki - Fula

Suffix

ki

  1. Noun class indicator for nouns (singular) including trees and some objects such as knives

Usage notes

Article

ki

  1. (definite) the (when it follows the noun)
    • Lekki kithe tree

Usage notes

Determiner

ki

  1. (used in indicating something)
    • Ki lekkithis/that tree

Usage notes

ki - Guinea-Bissau Creole

Pronoun

ki

  1. who

ki - Haitian Creole

Determiner

ki

  1. what

Pronoun

ki

  1. (relative) who, which

Usage notes

ki - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈki]

Adverb

ki (comparative kijjebb, superlative legkijjebb)

  1. out, not inside, from the inside, in an outward direction
    • Antonym: be

Usage notes

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with ki-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (they could have seen it, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see ki-; for an overview, Hungarian verbal prefixes.

Derived terms

Compound words

Pronoun

ki

  1. (interrogative) who (what person or people; which person or people)
  2. (relative, archaic) Synonym of aki (who, the person or people that)
  3. (relative, archaic) Synonym of az, aki (who, whoever, he/she who, they who)
  4. (paired) some (referring to people)
    • Ki erre, ki arra szaladt.Some ran this way; some, the other way.
ed  Table of Correlatives (cf. H. demonstrative adverbs)
questionthisthatsameevery-/allno-relativesomeanyelse
e/i-a/o- ugyanmind(en)-se(m/n)-a- + qu.vala akár bármás
whokiőumindenkisenkiakiva bm
whatmiezazu umindensemmiami / amelyva bm
whichmelyikmindegyik mindsemelyik egyik semamelyikva bm
howhogy(an) mikéntígyúgyu umindenhogy mindenhogyansehogy(an) semmiképpen(a)mint ahogy(an)v va b a bm/m m/m
whatlike what kindmilyen miféleilyen efféleolyan afféleu umindenfélesemmilyen semmiféleamilyenv va b a bm m/m
whereholittottu umindenhol mindenüttseholaholva bm m
from wh.honnaninnenonnanu umindenhonnansehonnanahonnanva bm
to wherehova hováideodau umindenhova mindenhovásehova sehováahova ahováv va b a bm m
from which waymerrőlerrőlarrólu umindenfelőlsemerrőlamerrőlva bm
which waymerre merrefeléerre errefeléarra arrafeléu umindenfelésemerreamerreva bm
whymiértezértazértu umindenértsemmiértamiértva bm
how manyhányennyiannyiu umind az összessehányahányva b
how muchmennyisemennyiamennyiva b
wh. extentmennyireennyireannyirau u(teljesen)semennyireamennyireva b
what sizemekkoraekkoraakkorau u(az egész)semekkoraamekkorava b
what timemikorekkorakkoru umindigsoha/sose(m) sohase(m)amikorva bm
how long how farmeddigeddigaddigu u(végig)*semeddigameddigva b
*: Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig). Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (whoever); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (no matter what). né- (some) forms compounds with few words.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of ki

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

ki - Japanese

Romanization

ki

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

ki - Javanese

Determiner

ki

  1. (colloquial) this, these

ki - Kabuverdianu

Adverb

ki

  1. than
  2. that
  3. which

ki - Kristang

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Pronoun

ki

  1. (interrogative) what (what thing)
  2. (relative) that; which

ki - Laz

Conjunction

ki

  1. Latin spelling of ქი (ki)

ki - Maori

Particle

ki

  1. to, toward.

ki - Mauritian Creole

Pronoun

ki

  1. (relative) who
  2. (relative) what

Derived terms


Particle

ki

  1. than
  2. that

ki - Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of ki – see (“branch; twig; etc.”). (This character, ki, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of .)

ki - Mohawk

Pronoun

ki

  1. this

ki - Old French

Pronoun

ki

  1. Alternative spelling of qui

ki - Papiamentu

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ki

  1. what

ki - Phalura

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Postposition

ki (کیۡ)

  1. as
  2. of
  3. out of
  4. with

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Conjunction

ki (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling کیۡ)

  1. or

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Conjunction

ki (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling کیۡ)

  1. Complementizer preceding extraposed complement clause

ki - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/
  • Syllabification: ki

Pronoun

ki m sg

  1. (obsolete) what, which kind of (referring to an undetermined set of possible answers)

ki - Rapa Nui

Verb

ki

  1. say
  2. look

ki - Rohingya

Pronoun

ki

  1. what

ki - Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

ki (Cyrillic spelling ки)

  1. (Kajkavian, relative) which, that, who

Synonyms

ki - Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Pronoun

ki

  1. who, which, that (relative)

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

ki - Sumerian

Romanization

ki

  1. Romanization of 𒆠 (ki)

ki - Swahili

Verb

ki

  1. it is

ki - Tok Pisin

Noun

ki

  1. key

ki - Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈki/
  • Hyphenation: ki

Preposition

ki

  1. towards, to, into, onto
  2. Marks the direct object of some verbs.

ki - Tongan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki/

Preposition

ki

  1. to (in the dative sense)

ki - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ci/

Conjunction

ki

  1. that

Numeral

ki

  1. two (short form of iki)
    • bir-ki-üç-dört
      • one-two-three-four

ki - Unami

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ki]

Pronoun

ki

  1. you (second person singular)

ki - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) ki

  1. (bowling) a pin

Noun

(classifier con) ki

  1. (colloquial, euphemistic) dog (animal)
    • ngu như kistupid like a dog

Noun

(classifier cái) ki

  1. a dustpan

ki - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (high-tone): IPA: /kí/
  • (mid-tone): IPA: /kī/
  • (low-tone): IPA: /kì/

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter K.

Particle

  1. (subjunctive) Subjunctive clause particle expressing obligation, wish, or permission.

Usage notes

Similar to the negation particles and , the first-person singular pronoun mo changes to n after this particle.


Verb

  1. (transitive) to greet, to say hello
  2. (transitive) to visit

Verb

  1. (transitive) to deliver a eulogy for someone
  2. (transitive) to sing the praises of someone

Derived terms


Verb

ki

  1. (transitive) to load
  2. (transitive) to compress (powdered material) into a container

Verb

ki

  1. (intransitive) to be viscous
  2. to be thick (relating to stew or soup)

Derived terms


Particle

  1. Alternative form of (not) (used before í)

ki - Zou

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki˧˥/

Noun

  1. horn

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki˧˥/

Noun

  1. parrot

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ki˧˩/

Adjective

  1. scared
  2. disgusted
Meaning and Definition of ki
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