visas / kiekvienas / kitas
All, Every and Other
Visas means whole or all, kiekvienas means every, and kitas means other or next. All three agree with their noun: visą dieną, kiekvieną rytą, kitą savaitę.
How It Works
1. Visas: whole, all.
- Singular, the whole: visa diena (the whole day), visas miestas (the whole city).
- Plural, all: visi studentai (all the students), visos knygos (all the books).
- On its own: visi (everyone), viskas (everything).
Forms: visas, viso, visam, visą, visu, visame; visa, visos, visai, visą, visa, visoje; plural visi, visų, visiems, visus, visais, visuose and visos, visų, visoms, visas, visomis, visose. Viskas has its own singular forms: viskas, visko, viskam, viską, viskuo.
2. Kiekvienas: every, each. It goes with a singular noun: kiekvienas žmogus (every person), kiekvieną rytą (every morning). On its own it means everyone: Kiekvienas gali suklysti (Anyone can make a mistake). Plural forms like kiekvienos are used with plural-only nouns: kiekvienos durys (every door).
3. Kitas: other, another, next. kitas žmogus (another person), kiti (the others), Ar turite kitą spalvą? (Do you have another colour?). With time words it means next: kitą savaitę (next week), kitą mėnesį (next month), kitais metais (next year). For last week, say praėjusią savaitę.
4. Time phrases. With the accusative of time, these words make everyday time phrases: visą dieną (all day), kiekvieną vakarą (every evening), kitą kartą (next time). Another way to say every with time is kas: kas savaitę (every week).
Examples (6)
- Visą dieną lijo.
It rained all day.
Word by Word: Whole day rained.
Visą dieną is an accusative time phrase.
- Visi studentai išlaikė egzaminą.
All the students passed the exam.
Plural visi means all of them.
- Kiekvieną rytą geriu kavą.
I drink coffee every morning.
Kiekvieną agrees with rytą in the accusative.
- Kitą savaitę važiuojame į Klaipėdą.
Next week we are going to Klaipėda.
With a time word, kitas means next.
- Viskas bus gerai.
Everything will be fine.
Viskas stands alone and means everything.
- Ar turite kitą spalvą?
Do you have another colour?
Kitą agrees with spalvą, a feminine noun in the accusative.
Common Mistakes
Using viskas before a noun.
Viskas studentai atėjo.Visi studentai atėjo.Viskas stands alone and means everything. Before a noun, use visas in the right form: visi studentai.
Using kiekvienas with a plural noun.
Kiekvieni vaikai gavo dovaną.Kiekvienas vaikas gavo dovaną.For individual children, use singular kiekvienas vaikas. Plural-only nouns require plural agreement: kiekvienos durys.
Forgetting the accusative in a time phrase.
Dirbau visa diena.Dirbau visą dieną.How long something lasts takes the accusative, and visas agrees with it: visą dieną.
How It Connects
Learn This First
These quantifying and distinguishing words agree with their nouns.
Related Patterns
- Accusative of Time
Visą dieną, kiekvieną rytą and kitą savaitę are accusative time phrases.
Level 2 - Adjective Agreement
These words agree with their noun the same way adjectives do.
Level 1 - kas + accusativeEvery with Kas
Kas savaitę is another way to say every week.
Level 4 - vienas kitąEach Other with Vienas Kitą
Kitas also appears in vienas kitą, each other.
Level 4 - kai kas / kai kurieSome with Kai
Kai kurie means some of them, between all and none.
Level 3 - niekas / niekada + ne-Negative Words with Ne-
Niekas (nobody, nothing) is the opposite of visi and viskas.
Level 2
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