kaikki

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Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kaikki, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *kajakei.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑi̯kːi/,
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  • Rhymes: -ɑikːi
  • Syllabification(key): kaik‧ki

Pronoun

kaikki

  1. (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”)
  2. (indefinite, in plural, without a main word) everyone, everybody
    Kaikki olivat täällä.
    Everyone was here.
    Vihaan kaikkia.
    I hate everyone.
  3. (in compounds) all-, omni-

Determiner

kaikki

  1. 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

Declension of kaikki (type 7*A/ovi)
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative kaikki kaikki
(kaiket)		superessive kaikkialla –
genitive kaiken kaikkien
kaikkein		delative kaikkialta –
partitive kaikkea kaikkiasublative kaikkialle –
accusative kaikki
kaiken		 kaiketlative – –
inessive kaikessa kaikissatemporal – –
elative kaikesta kaikistacausative – –
illative kaikkeen kaikkiinmultiplicative – –
adessive kaikella kaikilladistributive – –
ablative kaikelta kaikiltatemp. dist. – –
allative kaikelle kaikilleprolative – –
essive kaikkena kaikkinasituative – –
translative kaikeksi kaikiksioppositive – –
abessive kaiketta kaikitta
instructive – kaikin
comitative – kaikkine

Also inflects in the rare -ti case similar to abessive: kaiketi.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "all, everything"): mikään
  • (antonym(s) of "everyone"): kukaan

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