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Finnish
Etymology
mi- + -kään
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mikään
- (indefinite, chiefly in the negative) anything, any; (with negative) nothing, no
Mikään koira ei ole noin viisas.- No dog is that smart.
En halua mitään. (emphasizing mitään)- I don't want anything. / I want nothing.
Älä tee mitään! (emphasizing mitään)- Don't do anything! / Do nothing!
Voiko mikään koira olla noin viisas?- Is there any dog that can be as smart as that?
Mikä tuo on? -- Ei mikään!- What's that? -- Nothing!
En löydä avaimiani mistään.- I can not find my keys anywhere.
Menin etsimään veistä, mutta keittiössä ei ollut mitään lusikkaa terävämpää.- I went searching for a knife, but there was nothing sharper than a spoon in the kitchen.
I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.
Inflection
As -kaan is etymologically a clitic, the derivational ending comes before it.
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