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Finnish
Etymology
ku- + -kaan
Pronunciation
Pronoun
kukaan
- (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
- 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.
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