No. 1,213 in Russian
какое
"What" or "which" (interrogative adjective).
In a sentence
Какое у тебя любимое блюдо?
What is your favorite dish?
Used here as an interrogative pronoun, "какое" questions about a specific attribute of an object. It agrees in gender (neuter), number (singular), and case (nominative) with the noun "блюдо" (dish).
Какое счастье увидеть тебя снова!
What happiness it is to see you again!
In this exclamatory sentence, "какое" expresses the extent or quality of the feeling (happiness), qualifying the neuter singular noun "счастье" (happiness).
Мы выбрали какое-то интересное место для встречи.
We chose some interesting place for the meeting.
Here, "какое" appears as part of the compound pronoun "какое-то," indicating an unspecified or vague noun, agreeing in gender, number, and case with "место" (place).
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