Interrogatives

The following interrogatives are used in Livonian. They are declined the same as nouns, in that there is an interrogative corresponding to each case. There is no singular/plural distinction among interrogatives, though there is an animacy distinction. Interrogatives beginning with /k/ are used for living beings and those beginning with /m/ are used for inanimate objects. (Vääri 274) This is somewhat analogous to the distinction between the interrogatives "who?" and "what?" in English.