The collective universal determiner alle all cannot be nominalised and used as a floating quantifier. Instead, the form allegear all must be used (see also after quantifiers). This is shown in the example below:

It cannot be nominalised and used in argument position either, in case there is an antecedent in the context:

In case there is no clear antecedent in the context, the quantificational pronoun alles everything can be used for things, and elkenien everybody for persons:

The universal pronoun for persons is ungrammatical in case there is an antecedent, but this does not hold for the universal pronoun for things, although the identity of pronoun and antecedent has a sloppy feel about it in the latter case, as if the whole context were referred to, and by pragmatic implication narrowed down to the antecedent:

The pronoun elkenien is derived from the distributive determiner elk each and the pronoun ien one. The status of the intermediary word en is not clear, though it is homophonous with the coordinating conjunction. In Modern Frisian, it is sometimes shortened to elkien.