кожны
Each and Every with Кожны
Кожны means each or every and agrees with its noun: кожны дзень, кожная хвіліна, кожнае лета.
How It Works
1. Agreement. Кожны follows the adjective pattern: кожны дзень (masculine), кожная хвіліна (feminine), кожнае лета (neuter).
2. Time: every day, every morning. A time phrase with кожны is in the accusative. Masculine and neuter look unchanged (see inanimate accusative), but feminine takes -ую/-у (see feminine accusative): Кожную раніцу я п'ю каву (Every morning I drink coffee), кожную суботу (every Saturday).
3. Кожны on its own. It can stand alone and mean everyone: Кожны гэта ведае (Everyone knows that). Кожны з нас means each of us.
4. Plural кожныя. The plural appears with numbers: Аўтобус ходзіць кожныя дзесяць хвілін (The bus runs every ten minutes). To say all children, use усе дзеці, not кожныя.
Case forms. Like any adjective: кожнага, кожнаму, кожным; feminine кожнай.
Examples (6)
- Кожны дзень я хаджу на працу.
Every day I go to work.
Masculine дзень; accusative looks the same.
- Кожную раніцу я п'ю каву.
Every morning I drink coffee.
Feminine раніца → accusative кожную раніцу.
- Мы ездзім на мора кожнае лета.
We go to the sea every summer.
Neuter лета: кожнае.
- Кожная хвіліна важная.
Every minute matters.
Feminine хвіліна as the subject: кожная.
- Кожны з нас можа памыліцца.
Each of us can make a mistake.
Кожны standing alone: each of us.
- Аўтобус ходзіць кожныя дзесяць хвілін.
The bus runs every ten minutes.
Plural кожныя with a number.
Common Mistakes
Using the feminine form with a masculine noun.
Кожная дзень я чытаю.Кожны дзень я чытаю.Дзень is masculine, so the form is кожны.
Leaving a feminine time phrase in the nominative.
Кожная раніцу я бегаю.Кожную раніцу я бегаю.Time phrases with кожны are in the accusative, and feminine кожная becomes кожную to match раніцу.
Using кожныя when you mean All children love fairy tales.
Кожныя дзеці любяць казкі.Усе дзеці любяць казкі.Кожны goes with a singular noun. For all with a plural noun, use усе, or say кожнае дзіця.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Кожны agrees like an adjective.
Related Patterns
- увесь / уся / усё / усеAll with Увесь
Усе means all with a plural noun, where кожны needs a singular.
Level 3 - Feminine Accusative -у/-юFeminine Accusative -у and -ю
Feminine time phrases become кожную раніцу, кожную суботу.
Level 1 - Inanimate Accusative Unchanged
Кожны дзень and кожнае лета keep their form in the accusative.
Level 1 - Seasons and Parts of the Day
Раніцай and летам say when something happens; кожную раніцу stresses that it happens every time.
Level 2
Words in This Pattern
Practice кожны in Bubblegum
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