Kõikide

Kõikide is a term found in the Estonian language that is commonly associated with the pronoun kõik, meaning all or everyone. The form is encountered primarily as a genitive or related case form in older, dialectal, or stylistically marked writing rather than in everyday modern usage.

In contemporary standard Estonian, the most frequent way to express “of all” in noun phrases is through a set of modern genitive constructions that favor forms like kõigi. Kõikide, by contrast, tends to appear in historical texts, archaisms, or as a deliberate stylistic choice to evoke an older or more formal register. As such, it is typically not the preferred form for everyday speech but can surface in literature, translations, or linguistic discussions about older declensional patterns.

The existence of Kõikide reflects the broader Estonian system of pronoun declension, where pronouns adapt their form to convey grammatical relationships such as possession, association, or attribution within noun phrases. This illustrates how Estonian relies on inflection rather than prepositions to indicate case and number, and how variant forms can appear across different linguistic registers.

See also: Estonian language, pronouns in Estonian, grammar.