kumpikaan
(Redirected from ei kumpikaan)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]kumpikaan
- (indefinite, chiefly in the negative) (not) either, neither
- Kumpikaan (heistä) ei sanonut sanaakaan.
- Neither (of them) said a word.
- Älä puhu tästä kummallekaan!
- Don't talk to either (of them) about this!
- Tietääkö kumpikaan teistä, missä se on?
- Does either of you know where it is?
Usage notes
[edit]polarity pair |
positive | kumpikin |
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negative | kumpikaan |
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of kumpikaan (Kotus type 16*H/vanhempi, mp-mm gradation) | |||
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nominative | kumpikaan | kummatkaan | |
genitive | kummankaan | kumpienkaan | |
partitive | kumpaakaan | kumpiakaan | |
illative | kumpaankaan | kumpiinkaan | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kumpikaan | kummatkaan | |
accusative | nom. | kumpikaan | kummatkaan |
gen. | kummankaan | ||
genitive | kummankaan | kumpienkaan kumpainkaan rare | |
partitive | kumpaakaan | kumpiakaan | |
inessive | kummassakaan | kummissakaan | |
elative | kummastakaan | kummistakaan | |
illative | kumpaankaan | kumpiinkaan | |
adessive | kummallakaan | kummillakaan | |
ablative | kummaltakaan | kummiltakaan | |
allative | kummallekaan | kummillekaan | |
essive | kumpanakaan | kumpinakaan | |
translative | kummaksikaan | kummiksikaan | |
abessive | kummattakaan | kummittakaan | |
instructive | — | kumminkaan | |
comitative | — | kumpinekaan |
Synonyms
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Further reading
[edit]- “kumpikaan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms suffixed with -kaan
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/umpikɑːn
- Rhymes:Finnish/umpikɑːn/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish pronouns
- Finnish negative polarity items
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish vanhempi-type nominals
- Finnish indefinite pronouns