kaksi

Finnish
Finnish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : kaksi
    Ordinal : toinen
    Adverbial : kahdesti
    Multiplier : kaksinkertainen
    Distributive : kaksittain
    Colloquial counting form : kaa
    Colloquial ordinal : toka
Finnish Wikipedia article on kaksi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakci, from Proto-Uralic *kakta (~ *käktä). Final i is a common Finnic innovation, by analogy to yksi (“1”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑksi/, [ˈkɑks̠i]
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑks̠] (colloquial)
  • Rhymes: -ɑksi
  • Syllabification(key): kak‧si

Numeral

kaksi

  1. two

Usage notes
  • See Appendix:Finnish numbers

Declension
Declension of kaksi (type 31/kaksi)
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative kaksi kahdetsuperessive kahtaalla –
genitive kahden kaksiendelative kahtaalta –
partitive kahta kaksiasublative kahtaalle –
accusative kaksi
kahden		 kahdetlative kahtia –
inessive kahdessa kaksissatemporal – –
elative kahdesta kaksistacausative – –
illative kahteen kaksiinmultiplicative kahdesti –
adessive kahdella kaksilladistributive – kaksittain
ablative kahdelta kaksiltatemp. dist. – –
allative kahdelle kaksilleprolative – –
essive kahtena kaksinasituative – –
translative kahdeksi kaksiksioppositive – –
instructive kahden kaksin
abessive kahdetta kaksitta
comitative – kaksine

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Karelian
Karelian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : kaksi
    Ordinal : toini

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑksi/

Numeral

kaksi

  1. two

Declension
Declension of kaksi
plural
nominative kaksi
genitive kahen
partitive kahta
inessive kahessa
elative kahesta
illative kahteh
adessive kahella
ablative kahelta
essive kahtena
translative kaheksi
abessive kahetta

References
  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 52
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