mikäkin
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmikækin/, [ˈmik̟æk̟in]
- Rhymes: -ikækin
- Syllabification(key): mi‧kä‧kin
Pronoun
mikäkin
- which (used always in connection with another interrogative pronoun)
- minne mikäkin kuuluu? ― which belongs where?
- Only used in milloin mikäkin
- (often derogatory) some kind of (often with kuin (“like”))
- Hän huutaa kuin mikäkin hinaaja.
- He yells like some kind of a tugboat.
Inflection
Declension of mikäkin
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Derived terms
Adverb
mikäkin
- (used to deny whatever follows) some
- Mikäkin partiolainen! Ei osaa edes nappia ommella!
- Some scout he is! He cannot even sew a button!
Further reading
- “mikäkin”, 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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