yhdeksän

Finnish

(index yh)

Finnish cardinal numbers
 <  8 9 10  > 
    Cardinal : yhdeksän
    Ordinal : yhdeksäs
    Adverbial : yhdeksästi
    Multiplier : yhdeksänkertainen
    Colloquial counting form : ysi
    Colloquial ordinal : ykki
Finnish Wikipedia article on yhdeksän

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ükteksä, i.e. *ükt-e-ksä, consisting of an earlier form of yksi + a form of the negation verb ei + ksä, 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 "one is not there", and "of ten" was implied or originally said. Compare kahdeksan (eight), which developed the same way.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈyhdekˌsæn/, [ˈyçde̞kˌs̠æn]
  • Hyphenation: yh‧dek‧sän

Numeral

yhdeksän

  1. nine

Usage notes

  • See Appendix:Finnish numbers.

Declension

Declension is the same as type koira (number 10), except of the nominative singular form (*), where an -n is added at the end.

Coordinate terms

  • yhdeksänvuotias
  • yhdeksänvyötiäinen
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