কোন

Who and Which

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কোন means “who” or “which”: তোমাৰ শিক্ষক কোন? “who is your teacher?”.

How It Works

কোন covers two English words. The word it stands next to tells you which one is meant.

Use	Example
who, standing alone	ঘৰত কোন আছে? “Who is in the house?”
which, before a noun	তুমি কোন শ্ৰেণীত আছা? “Which class are you in?”

To ask “which one” of several things, join a classifier to কোন. Use কোনটো for a thing, কোনখন for a flat thing and কোনজন for a person.

কি asks “what” and gets the name of a thing as its answer. কোন asks about a person or picks one from a known group.

ঘৰত কোন আছে?
Who is in the house?
কোন stands in front of the verb আছে and asks about a person.
তোমাৰ শিক্ষক কোন?
Who is your teacher?
The sentence has no verb, so কোন comes last.
সেইজন কোন?
Who is that person?
সেইজন points at a person and কোন asks who it is.
তুমি কোন শ্ৰেণীত আছা?
Which class are you in?
কোন stands before the noun শ্ৰেণী “class” and means “which”.

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কোনLevel 1Who and Which

কোন “who” stands in the place of the answer as কি does, so কি comes first.

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