Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

Certain demonstratives appear as pronominal qualitative modifiers. (The forms are: ilyen/olyan 'of.this.kind/of.that.kind', ekkora/akkora 'of.this-size/of.that.size'.)

Soha	nem	láttam	még	ilyen	kutyá-t.
never	not	see.PST.1SG	yet	of.this.kind	dog-ACC

’I've never seen a dog like this.’

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Certain interrogatives and relatives appear as pronominal qualitative modifiers. (The form of the interrogative pronouns are: milyen 'what.kind', mekkora 'what.size').

Milyen	kutyá-t	láttál?
what.kind	dog-ACC	see.PST.2SG

’What kind of dog did you see?’

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