More uses of jaki (jakiego, taki ... jaki)

Jaki in every case

jaki declines exactly like an adjective — so every case you can put an adjective in, you can ask about:

What country are you from?
Z jakiego kraju jesteś?
What music are you talking about?
O jakiej muzyce rozmawiacie?
What hotel are you staying in?
W jakim hotelu mieszkacie?
What colour is your car?
Jakiego koloru jest twój samochód? — *Jakiego koloru?* (what colour?) is a fixed Genitive question.

Relative jaki — the quality twin of który

You just met który for picking out WHICH one. Jaki relates WHAT KIND: it answers a taki (or any quality word) in the main clause.

It was the kind of day that everyone remembers.
To był taki dzień, jaki wszyscy pamiętają.
I made the kind of soup that my grandmother used to make.
Zrobiłam taką zupę, jaką robiła moja babcia.

Like an adjective, relative jaki takes the case of its OWN clause: taką zupę, jaką… (both Accusative here, each from its own verb).

Jaki ..., taki ...

The correlative pair makes proverbs and comparisons:

Like father, like son.
Jaki ojciec, taki syn. — *like father, like son*.

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