kesken
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Instructive singular form of keski-.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
kesken
- unfinished
- jäädä kesken ― to be left unfinished
- Kopiointi on vielä kesken.
- The copying is not finished yet.
- Hän jätti kirjan kesken.
- He didn't finish the book.
- (literally, “He left the book unfinished.”)
- finished too soon
- Keitto loppui kesken, ja osa vieraista jäi nälkäisiksi.
- We ran out of soup, and some guests remained hungry.
Preposition edit
kesken (+ genitive/partitive)
Postposition edit
kesken (+ genitive)
- between, among
- kahden kesken ― between just the two of us
- keskustella kahden kesken ― to discuss in private
- meidän kesken, heidän kesken... ― among us, between them...
Inflection edit
Declension of keski-
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Further reading edit
- “kesken”, 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 2023-07-02