Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

Cardinal numerals and degree-quantifiers can have either a specific or a non-specific indefinite reading. In the latter case, they can appear with predicates requiring a non-specific complement.

Született	sok	gyerek
was.born	many	child

’Many children were born.’

Source: É. Kiss 2002: 155-156

Universal quantifiers and quantifiers with an -ik suffix are always specific: they cannot appear with predicates requiring a non-specific complement.

*Született	minden/mindegyik	gyerek
was.born	every/each	child

’Every/each child was born.’

Source: É. Kiss 2002: 155-156

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