kukaan

ku- +‎ -kaan

• IPA^(key): /ˈkukɑːn/, [ˈkukɑ̝ːn]
• Rhymes: -ukɑːn
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧kaan
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧kaan

kukaan

1. (indefinite, chiefly in the negative) anybody, anyone; (with negative) no-one, none, nobody

   Kukaan ei halua sellaista tulevaisuutta lapsilleen.

   Nobody wants that kind of future for their children.

   Älkää puhuko tästä kenellekään!

   Don't talk to anyone about this!

   Tietääkö kukaan, missä se on?

   Does anybody know where it is?

• Like with kuka, there are two inflectional paradigms, and modern Finnish uses a mixture of the two; the nominative singular uses the stem ku- and all other forms use the stem kene-. The other forms, shown with parentheses in the table below, are considered old-fashioned. See kuka for more information.
• The inflectional ending comes before the clitic -(ka)an.

• kuka
• kumpi
• kumpikaan
• kumpikin

• “kukaan”, 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 2 July 2023

• akkuna, kaakun, nukkaa