kaikki
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kaikki, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *kajakei.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑi̯kːi/, [ˈkɑi̯kːi]
- Rhymes: -ɑikːi
- Syllabification(key): kaik‧ki
Pronoun
kaikki
- (indefinite, in singular, without a main word) everything
- Tänään kaikki menee pieleen.
- Today everything goes wrong.
- Vihaan kaikkea.
- I hate everything.
- eikä tässä vielä kaikki ― but wait, there's more (literally, “and this is not everything yet”)
- (indefinite, in plural, without a main word) everyone, everybody
- Kaikki olivat täällä.
- Everyone was here.
- Vihaan kaikkia.
- I hate everyone.
- (in compounds) all-, omni-
Determiner
kaikki
- all
- Kaikki sukkani löytyivät.
- All my socks were found.
- Yhtäkkiä kaikki vesi vyöryi huoneistoon.
- Suddenly all the water ran into the apartment.
Usage notes
- The pronoun also has the nominative plural form kaiket, which is used only in some phrases, e.g. kaiket päivät, "every day" / "all the time" / "day after day" / "for days on end".
Declension
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Also inflects in the rare Template:m case similar to abessive: Template:m.
Synonyms
- (everyone) Template:l
Antonyms
- (all, everything) negation verb + mikään
- (everyone) negation verb + kukaan
Derived terms
- Template:l
- Template:l
- Template:l
Anagrams
- Template:anagrams
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