kaks

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See also: käks, kåks, kakš, and kaks'

English

Noun

kaks

  1. plural of kak

Anagrams

Estonian

Estonian numbers (edit)
20
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    Cardinal: kaks
    Ordinal: teine
    Multiplier: kahekordne
    Distributive: kahekaupa, paarikaupa
    Collective adverbial: kahekesi
    Fractional: pool

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kakta. The final vowel was modified by analogy with *ükci (“one”).

Pronunciation

Numeral

kaks (genitive kahe, partitive kaht or kahte)

  1. two

Declension

Declension of kaks (ÕS type 22/põu, irregular gradation)
singular plural
nominative kaks kahed
accusative nom.
gen. kahe
genitive kahtede
partitive kahte kahtesid
illative kahte
kahesse 		kahtedesse
inessive kahes kahtedes
elative kahest kahtedest
allative kahele kahtedele
adessive kahel kahtedel
ablative kahelt kahtedelt
translative kaheks kahtedeks
terminative kaheni kahtedeni
essive kahena kahtedena
abessive kaheta kahtedeta
comitative kahega kahtedega

Derived terms

References

Finnish

Pronunciation

Numeral

kaks

  1. (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of kaksi

Declension

The declension presented in the table below is only one possibility. Colloquial Finnish declension is not standardized and depends on the region and the speaker. Different variations of the same form may be used by the same speaker, even within the same sentence.

Declension of kaks
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative kaks kahetsuperessive – –
genitive kahen
kahe		 kaksiendelative – –
partitive kahta
kaht		 kaksiasublative – –
accusative kaks
kahen
kahe		 kahetlative kahtia –
inessive kahessa
kahes		 kaksissa
kaksis		temporal – –
elative kahesta
kahest		 kaksista
kaksist		causative – –
illative kahteen
kahtee		 kaksiin
kaksii		multiplicative kahesti –
adessive kahella
kahel		 kaksilla
kaksil		distributive – –
ablative kahelta
kahelt		 kaksilta
kaksilt		temp. dist. – –
allative kahelle kaksilleprolative – –
essive kahtena kaksinasituative – –
translative kaheksi
kaheks		 kaksiksi
kaksiks		oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive – kaksin
comitative – –

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

Ingrian

Ingrian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : kaks
    Ordinal : toin
    Fractional : pooli

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakci, from Proto-Uralic *kakta. Cognates include Finnish kaksi and Estonian kaks.

Pronunciation

Numeral

kaks

  1. two
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 31:
      Yks, kaks, kolt.
      One, two, three.

Declension

Declension of kaks (type 9/yks, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kaks kahet
genitive kahen kaksiin
partitive kahta kaksia
illative kahtee kaksii
inessive kahes kaksiis
elative kahest kaksist
allative kahelle kaksille
adessive kahel kaksiil
ablative kahelt kaksilt
translative kaheks kaksiks
essive kahtenna, kahteen kaksinna, kaksiin
exessive1) kahtent kaksint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790) “каксъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 703
  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 92
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 125
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 78
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