Differential forms on vector spaces

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For a differential form on Euclidean space $$dx_i:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$$ $$dx_i:(\textbf{v})\rightarrow v_i$$ Looking more genereally at vector spaces, for a differential form on a vector space is it also true that $$dx_i:V\rightarrow K$$ $$dx_i:(\textbf{v})\rightarrow v_i$$ Where $\textbf{v}\in V$, $V$ is a vector space over field $K$?

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Sure, let $K$ be a field, $V$ a $K$-vector field and $(e_1,\ldots,e_n)$ be a basis for $V$, then $(\mathrm{d}x_1,\ldots,\mathrm{d}x_n)$ is defined to be the dual basis of $(e_1,\ldots,e_n)$, every linear form on $V$ is a linear combination of the $\mathrm{d}x_i$.