kukaan
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editkukaan
- (indefinite, chiefly in the negative) anybody, anyone; (with negative) no-one, none, nobody
- Kukaan ei halua sellaista tulevaisuutta lapsilleen.
- Nobody wants that kind of future for their children.
- Älkää puhuko tästä kenellekään!
- Don't talk to anyone about this!
- Tietääkö kukaan, missä se on?
- Does anybody know where it is?
Inflection
edit- Like with kuka, there are two inflectional paradigms, and modern Finnish uses a mixture of the two; the nominative singular uses the stem ku- and all other forms use the stem kene-. The other forms, shown with parentheses in the table below, are considered old-fashioned. See kuka for more information.
- The inflectional ending comes before the clitic -(ka)an.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editpolarity pair |
positive | kukin |
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negative | kukaan |
Pronouns with same stems:
Further reading
edit- “kukaan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02