ki
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ki"
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiː/
Noun
ki (countable and uncountable, plural kis)
- Ti, a plant native to the Pacific islands and China, Cordyline fruticosa.
Noun
ki (uncountable)
Noun
ki (uncountable)
- (philosophy) Alternative form of chi
- 1983, George A. Kirby, Jujitsu: Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art (page 19)
- If you are calm and relaxed it will be easier for you to accept and use his ki, helping him to reach his goal. In other words, you will redirect his ki or enhance it with your own to bring your attacker down in the direction he was directing his ki.
- 1983, George A. Kirby, Jujitsu: Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art (page 19)
Abenaki
References
- Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
Aimele
Further reading
- R. D. Shaw, The Bosavi Language Family (1986), in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics (D. C. Laycock et al., eds.), number 24
Azerbaijani
Conjunction
ki
- 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.
- 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.
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *ki, from Proto-Celtic *kū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.
Derived terms
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *ki, from Proto-Celtic *kū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kiː]
Mutation
Mutation of ki
Cornish consonant mutation | |||||
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
ki | gi | hi | unchanged | unchanged | unchanged |
Dena'ina
Fula
Suffix
ki
- Noun class indicator for nouns (singular) including trees and some objects such as knives
Determiner
ki
- (used in indicating something)
- Ki lekki ― this/that tree
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Haitian Creole
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈki]
Audio (file)
Etymology 1
From Proto-Ugric.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Uralic *ke, the same root from which the Finnish ken and Ter Sami kie are derived.
Pronoun
ki
- (interrogative) who
- (relative, archaic or formal) who
- 1916, Mihály Babits, Új könyvekre, stanza 2:
- Gondoljatok arra, kit messze rejtek / rejt tőletek, ki ha kóstolja bortok / nem érzi már ízét sem; és ha szóltok / nem érti, s más összhang mit vágya kerget.
- 1916, Mihály Babits, Új könyvekre, stanza 2:
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | ki | kik |
accusative | kit | kiket |
dative | kinek | kiknek |
instrumental | kivel | kikkel |
causal-final | kiért | kikért |
translative | kivé | kikké |
terminative | kiig | kikig |
essive-formal | kiként | kikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kiben | kikben |
superessive | kin | kiken |
adessive | kinél | kiknél |
illative | kibe | kikbe |
sublative | kire | kikre |
allative | kihez | kikhez |
elative | kiből | kikből |
delative | kiről | kikről |
ablative | kitől | kiktől |
Possessive forms of ki | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | kim | kijeim |
2nd person sing. | kid | kijeid |
3rd person sing. | kije | kijei |
1st person plural | kink | kijeink |
2nd person plural | kitek | kijeitek |
3rd person plural | kijük | kijeik |
Mauritian Creole
Derived terms
See also
Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of ki – see 枝 (“branch; twig; etc.”). (This character, ki, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 枝.) |
Old French
Pronoun
ki
- Alternative form of qui
- 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 1, column 2, line 16:
- ki trop i prent son tens i pert
- He who spends too much of his time on it suffers as a result
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъjь, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + relative particle *yos.
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъjь, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + relative particle *yos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki/
Inflection
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ki˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kɪj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kɪj˧˧]
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