kesken

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Finnish

Etymology

Instructive singular form of keski-.

Pronunciation

Adverb

kesken

  1. unfinished
    jäädä kesken ― to be left unfinished
    Kopiointi on vielä kesken.
    The copying is not finished yet.
    Hän jätti kirjan kesken.
    He didn't finish the book.
    (literally, “He left the book unfinished.”)
  2. finished too soon
    Keitto loppui kesken, ja osa vieraista jäi nälkäisiksi.
    We ran out of soup, and some guests remained hungry.

Preposition

kesken

  1. in the middle of
    Pappi pyörtyi kesken puheen.
    The priest fainted in the middle of the speech.

Postposition

kesken

  1. between, among
    kahden kesken ― between just the two of us
    keskustella kahden kesken ― to discuss in private
    meidän kesken, heidän kesken... ― among us, between them...

Inflection

Declension of keski-
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative keski- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive (keskeä) –sublative – –
accusative – –lative – –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive keskellä –distributive – –
ablative keskeltä –temp. dist. – –
allative keskelle –prolative keskitse –
essive keskenään –situative – –
translative – –oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive kesken –
comitative – –

Derived terms

Further reading

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