kaikki

Finnish

(index ka)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kaikki. Perhaps originally derived from a Baltic language, cf. Lithuanian kiek, with the meaning of how many.

Pronoun

kaikki (singular/plural)

  1. (indefinite, in singular, without a main word) Everything.
    Tänään kaikki menee pieleen.
    Today everything goes wrong.
    Vihaan kaikkea.
    I hate everything.
  2. (indefinite, in plural, without a main word) Everyone, everybody.
    Kaikki olivat täällä.
    Everyone was here.
    Vihaan kaikkia.
    I hate everyone.
  3. (indefinite, in singular and plural, as a modifier) All.
    Kaikki sukkani löytyivät.
    All my socks were found.
    Yhtäkkiä kaikki vesi vyöryi huoneistoon.
    Suddenly all the water ran into the apartment.
  4. As a former part of compound (in nominative or genitive) signifies all-, omni-.

Usage notes

  • The pronoun has also a nominative plural form kaiket which is used only in some phrases, e.g. kaiket päivät, "day after day" / "for days on end".

Declension

Declension of kaikki (type 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 – –
instructive – kaikin
abessive kaiketta kaikitta
comitative – kaikkine

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

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