кто

See also: kto

Old East Slavic edit

кто (kto)

Alternative spelling of къто (kŭto)
- 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex‎^[1], page 1:
  кто въ києвѣ нача первѣє кнѧжит и ѿкуду рускаꙗ ꙁемлѧ стала єсть⁘
  kto vŭ kievě nača pervěe knęžit i otŭkudu ruskaja zemlę stala estĭ⁘
  Who in Kiev first started to reign and whence the Russian land has started to be.

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “къто”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1415

IPA^(key): [kto]
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(South-European Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, non-standard) IPA^(key): [xto] (phonetic respelling: хто)
Rhymes: -o

кто • (kto) m

(interrogative) who
Кто э́то? ― Kto éto? ― Who’s this?

Я не зна́ю, кто э́то сде́лал. ― Ja ne znáju, kto éto sdélal. ― I don’t know who did this.
(relative) who
Тот, кто э́то сде́лал. ― Tot, kto éto sdélal. ― The one who did it.

Declension of кто

Pre-reform declension of кто

кто (Latin spelling kto)