# kaks
## English
### Noun

kaks
* plural of kak

### Anagrams

* AKKs

## Estonian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑks]
* Rhymes: -ɑks
* Hyphenation: kaks

### Numeral

kaks (genitive kahe, partitive kaht or kahte)
* two

#### Derived terms

* kaksik

#### Related terms

* kaheksa
* kaksteist
* kakskümmend

### References

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

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑ̝ks̠]
* Rhymes: -ɑks
* Hyphenation: kaks

### Numeral

kaks
* (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of kaksi

#### Declension

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.
Declension of kaks
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
kaks
kahetsuperessive
genitive
kahen kahe
kaksiendelative
partitive
kahta kaht
kaksiasublative
accusative
kaks kahen kahe
kahetlative
kahtia
inessive
kahessa kahes
kaksissa kaksistemporal
elative
kahesta kahest
kaksista kaksistcausative
illative
kahteen kahtee
kaksiin kaksiimultiplicative
kahesti
adessive
kahella kahel
kaksilla kaksildistributive
ablative
kahelta kahelt
kaksilta kaksilttemp. dist.
allative
kahelle
kaksilleprolative
essive
kahtena
kaksinasituative
translative
kaheksi kaheks
kaksiksi kaksiksoppositive
abessive
instructive
kaksin
comitative

#### Derived terms

* ykskaks

### Further reading

* “kaks”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Ingrian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Numeral

kaks
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* kahenlain
* kakshaarain
* kaksikko
* kakskarvain
* kakskertain
* kakskolmatta
* kaksmaštiin
* kaksnaaglain
* kakspohjain
* kakspooliin
* kaksvootiin
* kaksznacnoi

### References

* 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, 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, →ISBN, page 78