kaikki

From Proto-Finnic *kaikki, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *kajakei.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑi̯kːi/, [ˈkɑ̝i̯kːi]

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• Rhymes: -ɑikːi
• Syllabification^(key): kaik‧ki

kaikki

1. (indefinite, uncountable) everything (in the singular)

   Tänään kaikki menee pieleen.

   Today everything is going wrong.

   Vihaan kaikkea.

   I hate everything.

   eikä tässä vielä kaikki ― but wait, there's more (literally, “and this is not everything yet”)

2. (indefinite) everyone, everybody (in the plural, except the nominative form is in the singular, but verbs in the plural form)

   Kaikki olivat täällä.

   Everyone was here.

   Vihaan kaikkia.

   I hate everyone.

3. (in compounds) all-, omni-

kaikki

1. all

   Kaikki sukkani löytyivät.

   All my socks were found.

   Yhtäkkiä kaikki vesi vyöryi huoneistoon.

   Suddenly all the water ran into the apartment.

• The pronoun also has the nominative plural form kaiket, which is used only in some phrases, e.g. kaiket päivät (“every day, all the time, day after day, for days on end”).

Also forms: kaikkialla (superessive singular), kaikkialle (sublative singular), kaikkialta (delative singular), kaiketi (caritive).

• (everyone): jokainen

• (antonym(s) of “all, everything”): mikään
• (antonym(s) of “everyone”): kukaan

• “kaikki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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