kaks

1. plural of kak

• AKKs

Estonian numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: kaks     Ordinal: teine     Multiplier: kahekordne     Distributive: kahekaupa, paarikaupa     Collective adverbial: kahekesi     Fractional: pool

From Proto-Finnic *kakci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kakta. The final vowel was modified by analogy with *ükci (“one”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑks]
• Rhymes: -ɑks
• Hyphenation: kaks

kaks (genitive kahe, partitive kaht or kahte)

1. two

Declension of kaks (ÕS type 22/põu, irregular gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kaks	kahed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kahe
genitive			kahtede
partitive		kahte	kahtesid
illative		kahte kahesse	kahtedesse
inessive		kahes	kahtedes
elative		kahest	kahtedest
allative		kahele	kahtedele
adessive		kahel	kahtedel
ablative		kahelt	kahtedelt
translative		kaheks	kahtedeks
terminative		kaheni	kahtedeni
essive		kahena	kahtedena
abessive		kaheta	kahtedeta
comitative		kahega	kahtedega

• kaheksa
• kaksteist
• kakskümmend

• “kaks”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑ̝ks̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑks
• Syllabification^(key): kaks
• Hyphenation^(key): kaks

kaks

1. (colloquial or dialectal) alternative form of kaksi

The declension presented in the table below is only one possibility. Colloquial Finnish declension is not standardized and depends on the region and the speaker. Different variations of the same form may be used by the same speaker, even within the same sentence.

• “kaks”, 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 2 July 2023

Ingrian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : kaks     Ordinal : toin     Fractional : pooli

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑks̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑkʃ]
• Rhymes: -ɑks
• Hyphenation: kaks

kaks

1. two
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 31:

     Yks, kaks, kolt.

     One, two, three.

Declension of kaks (type 9/yks, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kaks	kahet
genitive	kahen	kaksiin
partitive	kahta	kaksia
illative	kahtee	kaksii
inessive	kahes	kaksiis
elative	kahest	kaksist
allative	kahelle	kaksille
adessive	kahel	kaksiil
ablative	kahelt	kaksilt
translative	kaheks	kaksiks
essive	kahtenna, kahteen	kaksinna, kaksiin
exessive1)	kahtent	kaksint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790), “каксъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 703
• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 92
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 125
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 78

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