kesken

Finnish

From singular instructive keski- +‎ -n.

kesken

unfinished
Kopiointi on vielä kesken.
The copying is not finished yet.

Hän jätti kirjan kesken. (lit. He left the book unfinished)
He didn't finish the book.
finished too soon
Keitto loppui kesken, ja osa vieraista jäi nälkäisiksi.
We ran out of soup, and some guests remained hungry.

kesken

in the middle of:
Pappi pyörtyi kesken puheen.
The priest fainted in the middle of the speech.

kesken

between, among:
meidän kesken, heidän kesken...
between us, among them...

Declension of kesken

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	keski-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	keskeä	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	–	–
inessive	–	–	temporal	–	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	–	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	keskellä	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	keskeltä	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	keskelle	–	prolative	keskitse	–
essive	keskenään	–	situative	–	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	–	–
abessive	kesken	–
instructive	–	–
comitative	–	–