auki

auk- +‎ -i

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/,
• Rhymes: -ɑuki
• Hyphenation^(key): au‧ki

auki

1. open (not closed or locked)

   Ovi oli auki.

   The door was open.

   Kauppa on auki yhdeksään.

   The shop is open until nine o'clock.

2. untied, unbuttoned
3. up in the air, open (not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain)

   Luulen, että voin tehdä sen nopeasti, mutta tarkka aikataulu on vielä auki.

   I think I can do it quickly, but the exact schedule is still up in the air.

   Kysymys on edelleen auki.

   The question is still open.

4. on, turned on (especially of a device used to receive communications)

   Pidän veneessä aina VHF:n auki.

   When in boat, I always keep the VHF turned on.

   Keittiössä oli radio auki.

   In the kitchen, the radio was on.

5. (colloquial) broke, busted, skint

   Olen aivan auki.

   I'm completely busted.

In English, "open" is an adjective. The Finnish adjective meaning "open" is avoin.

• (not closed): avoinna
• (turned on): päällä

• kiinni

• aueta
• avata

• “auki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• kaiu

• IPA^(key): /ˈøyːcɪ/
• Rhymes: -øyːcɪ

auki m (genitive singular auka, nominative plural aukar)

1. increase, addition

From Proto-Finnic . Cognates include Finnish auki and Karelian auki.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/,
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯ki/,
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯kʲ, -ɑu̯ki
• Hyphenation: au‧ki

auki

1. open
2. (phonology) open (ending in a vowel)
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 55:

     Sloga ono auki, sentää ono vahva steeppeni kk (ka-lak-ka-han), ku sloga ono kiin (ka-la-kas), ni ono yks k, ono slaaboi steeppeni.

     The syllable is open, therefore it has the strong grade kk (ka-lak-ka-han), when the syllable is closed (ka-la-kas), it thus has one k, it has the weak grade.

• (not closed): lahti, avollaa

• (antonym(s) of “not closed”): kiin
• (antonym(s) of “ending in a vowel”): kiin

• avattu (“open”), salvattu (“closed”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 23
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 22
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 81

auki

1. third-person singular/plural present active subjunctive of auka