ka

Where ka goes

ka points to one word in the sentence. It usually stands right before that word, and in everyday speech often right after it:

• Ka mina tulen. or Mina ka tulen. (I am coming too. Someone else is coming, and so am I.)
• Ta räägib ka vene keelt. (She speaks Russian too. She speaks other languages, and Russian as well.)

In a short sentence, ka often comes at the end: Mina tulen ka. Use the full pronoun mina when the person is the new information, not the short ma (see Personal Pronouns).

Short replies

• Mina ka! (Me too!)
• Head päeva! – Teile ka! (Have a nice day! – You too!)

Negative sentences. In a negative sentence, ka means either and goes before ei: Mina ka ei tea. (I do not know either.) The short reply is Mina ka mitte. (Me neither.) See Not Either.

Other uses. ka can also mean even: Seda teab ka laps. (Even a child knows that.) The ending -gi/-ki can do the same job as ka: minagi (me too). In speech, ka is also a friendly filler word, as in Tere ka!