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kuka + ko + kin, interrogative pronoun
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keinekös

kuka

Interrogative pronoun, Plural Comitative, Question clitic, Focus clitic with suffix s
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(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

Tatoeba Parallel Corpus; Tatoeba; SETimes; Europarl Parallel Corpus; Tilde MODEL Parallel Corpus; Europarl; JRC-Acquis - OPUS - Finnish-English; OPUS Corpus En näe keittenkään tuossa. I don't see anyone there. En halua satuttaa ketäkään. I don't want to hurt anyone. He eivät tunne ketäkään täällä. They don't know anyone here. Keneltäkään en saanut vastausta. I didn't get an answer from anyone. En ota vastaan lahjoja kenenkään. I don’t accept gifts from anyone. Ketäkään ei jätetty ulkopuolelle. No one was left out. En tiedä, kuka se oli. I don't know who it was. Ei taida saada neuvoa keneltäkään. It seems that he won't get advice from anyone. Hän ei kuullut mitään keneltäkään. He didn't hear anything from anyone. En keittenkään kerro sitä hänelle. I won't tell it to anyone. Show more arrow right

kuka / who

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 - -

kuka / who

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

-

-

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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