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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kaikki, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *kajakei.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
kaikki
- (indefinite, uncountable) everything (in the singular)
Tänään kaikki menee pieleen.- Today everything is going wrong.
Vihaan kaikkea.- I hate everything.
- eikä tässä vielä kaikki ― but wait, there's more (literally, “and this is not everything yet”)
- (indefinite) everyone, everybody (in the plural, except the nominative form is in the singular, but verbs in the plural form)
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
Also forms: kaikkialla (superessive singular), kaikkialle (sublative singular), kaikkialta (delative singular), kaiketi (caritive).
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “all, everything”): mikään
- (antonym(s) of “everyone”): kukaan
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