kahdeksan

Finnish

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

Finnish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : kahdeksan     Ordinal : kahdeksas     Adverbial : kahdeksasti     Multiplier : kahdeksankertainen
Finnish Wikipedia article on kahdeksan

kahdeksan

1. (cardinal) eight

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.

Usage notes

• See Appendix:Finnish_numbers.

See also

• kahdeksas
• kahdeksantoista