mikään
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmikæːn/, [ˈmik̟æːn]
- Rhymes: -ikæːn
- Syllabification(key): mi‧kään
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.
- I went searching for a knife, but there was nothing sharper than a spoon in the kitchen.
Inflection
As -kaan is etymologically a clitic, the derivational ending comes before it.
Declension of mikään
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “mikään”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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