کوئی

Someone or an Unspecified Item

Level 2

Leave the person or item unidentified.

How It Works

In باہر کوئی ہے, the unidentified participant is a person. In کوئی صاف کپڑا, کوئی instead modifies a singular item.

A postposition changes the form: کسی سے refers to an unspecified person in a phrase with سے. It is not formed by adding a suffix to کوئی.

کوئی alone does not mean nobody. A negative construction adds نہیں; بھی can add an any-at-all or free-choice meaning in a suitable context.

باہر کوئی ہے۔
Someone is outside.
کوئی stands for an unidentified person.
کیا کوئی صاف کپڑا ہے؟
Is there a clean cloth?
کوئی accompanies a singular item.
آپ کسی سے پوچھیے۔
Please ask someone.
کسی is the form before سے.
کوئی نئی کہانی سنائیے۔
Please tell a new story.
The story is unspecified; نئی agrees with کہانی.

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کوئیLevel 2Someone or an Unspecified Item

Compare an unspecified person or thing with a singular item introduced by ایک.

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