See ehkä on Wiktionary
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"Proto-Finnic adverbs",
"Proto-Finnic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Finnic lemmas",
"Proto-Finnic terms suffixed with *-hka"
],
"glosses": [
"perhaps, maybe"
],
"links": [
[
"perhaps",
"perhaps"
],
[
"maybe",
"maybe"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "ehkä"
}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (9a214a4 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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