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kuka + ko, interrogative pronoun
Word analysis
keihinkö

keihinkö

kuka

Interrogative pronoun, Plural Illative, Question clitic
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Wiktionary

(interrogative) who; (when followed by a modifier in elative case, -sta/-stä) which one (of + a noun referring to people). (indefinite) whoever. (relative) who, when the pronoun refers to the whole of the preceding sentence. Fin:En tiedä, kuka sen teki.Eng:I don't know who did it.Fin:Tässä on mies, joka sen teki.Eng:This is the man who did it. (relative, dialectal) who Show more arrow right (who): ken ( the nominative singular is archaic, see "Inflection" section above)(whoever): kuka tahansa, ken Show more arrow right The singular forms are sometimes used colloquially instead of the actual plural forms. Ketä is particularly common for keitä. In some dialects ketä is used in place of kuka. Show more arrow right From Proto-Finnic ku (from Proto-Uralic ku- ~ ko-) +‎ -ka. Cognate with Estonian kumb (“which”), Hungarian hol (“where”), Forest Enets hōke (“which one”), Nganasan kuninu (“where”), and Kamassian kāmǝ̑n (“if”). Might further be related to Proto-Indo-European kʷi- ~ kʷe- ~ kʷo-, whence the English interrogatives English what, where, who, how derive. Show more arrow right

Example sentences

Tilde MODEL Parallel Corpus; Tatoeba; OpenSubtitles; JW300 Parallel Corpus; Europarl; Tatoeba Parallel Corpus; Europarl Parallel Corpus, Sentence ID: 1001-1000; OPUS - Finnish Senate Proceedings, Sentence ID: 2003-1000; UN; Europarl Parallel Corpus En ota vastaan lahjoja kenenkään. I don’t accept gifts from anyone. En tiedä, kuka se oli. I don't know who it was. En tunne kenenkään täällä. I don't know anyone here. En aio antaa kenenkään estää minua. I’m not going to let anyone stop me. En löydä avainta kenenkään. I can't find anyone's key. En halua loukata kenenkään tunteita. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Kellekään ei saa antaa etua. No one should be given an advantage. Hän ei ole velkaa kellekään. He doesn't owe anything to anyone. Kuka tuli viimeksi sisään? Who came in last? Kenenkään ei tarvitse tietää totuutta. no one needs to know the truth. Show more arrow right

kuka / who

SingularPlural
Nom - kukako -
Par -ta kutako -
Gen -n - -
Acc -t kutkako -
Ill mihin kuhunko -
Ine -ssa kussako -
Ela -sta kustako -
All -lle kulleko -
Ade -lla kullako -
Abl -lta kultako -
Tra -ksi - -
Ess -na - -
Abe -tta - -
Com -ne - -
Ins -in - -

kuka / who

Singular

Plural

Nom

-

kukako

-

Par

-ta

kutako

-

Gen

-n

-

-

Acc

-t

kutkako

-

Ill

mihin

kuhunko

-

Ine

-ssa

kussako

-

Ela

-sta

kustako

-

All

-lle

kulleko

-

Ade

-lla

kullako

-

Abl

-lta

kultako

-

Tra

-ksi

-

-

Ess

-na

-

-

Abe

-tta

-

-

Com

-ne

-

-

Ins

-in

-

-

mikä / which, what

SingularPlural
Nom - - -
Par -ta - -
Gen -n - -
Acc -t - -
Ill mihin - -
Ine -ssa - -
Ela -sta - -
All -lle - -
Ade -lla - -
Abl -lta - -
Tra -ksi - -
Ess -na - -
Abe -tta - -
Com -ne - -
Ins -in - -

mikä / which, what

Singular

Plural

Nom

-

-

-

Par

-ta

-

-

Gen

-n

-

-

Acc

-t

-

-

Ill

mihin

-

-

Ine

-ssa

-

-

Ela

-sta

-

-

All

-lle

-

-

Ade

-lla

-

-

Abl

-lta

-

-

Tra

-ksi

-

-

Ess

-na

-

-

Abe

-tta

-

-

Com

-ne

-

-

Ins

-in

-

-

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