kaksinen

• From the cardinal number kaksi. Originally used for classification of fields for a land reform ("isojako", Swedish: "storskiftet"): a kaksinen field gave two seeds crop for one seed planted, thus it was not very good. A field that was not even "kaksinen" was indeed not good. "Ei kovin kaksinen" (not very kaksinen), the form usually used, is a field that is barely kaksinen, thus barely worth sowing.

• Hyphenation: kak‧si‧nen
• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑksinen]

kaksinen (not compared)

1. (idiomatic, used always with a negation verb and very often with the adverb kovin) Not too hot, nothing to write home about.

   Elokuva ei ollut kovin kaksinen.

   The movie wasn't too hot.

• Kaskinen, kanneksi