kahdeksan

Finnish

(index ka)

**Finnish cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : kahdeksan Ordinal : kahdeksas Adverbial : kahdeksasti Multiplier : kahdeksankertainen Colloquial counting form : kasi Colloquial ordinal : kakki
Finnish Wikipedia article on kahdeksan

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakteksa, i.e *kakt-e-ksa, consisting of an earlier form of kaksi + a form of the negation verb ei + ksa, which has the same origin as the endings in the reflexive forms found in dialects, c.f. Kalevala forms such as istuikse = istuutuu (“he/she sits”), so that the combination means "two are not there", and "of ten" was implied or originally said. Compare yhdeksän (“nine”), which developed the same way.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: kah‧dek‧san

Numeral

kahdeksan

(cardinal) eight

Usage notes

See Appendix:Finnish_numbers.

Declension

Declension of kahdeksan (type koira)

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	kahdeksan (*)	kahdeksat	superessive	–	–
genitive	kahdeksan	kahdeksien / kahdeksain	delative	–	–
partitive	kahdeksaa	kahdeksia	sublative	–	–
accusative	kahdeksan	kahdeksat	lative	–	–
inessive	kahdeksassa	kahdeksissa	temporal	–	–
elative	kahdeksasta	kahdeksista	causative	–	–
illative	kahdeksaan	kahdeksiin	multiplicative	kahdeksasti	–
adessive	kahdeksalla	kahdeksilla	distributive	–	–
ablative	kahdeksalta	kahdeksilta	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	kahdeksalle	kahdeksille	prolative	–	–
essive	kahdeksana	kahdeksina	situative	–	–
translative	kahdeksaksi	kahdeksiksi	oppositive	–	–
instructive	–	kahdeksin
abessive	kahdeksatta	kahdeksitta
comitative	–	kahdeksine

Declension is the same as type koira (number 10), except of the nominative singular form (*), where an -n is added at the end.