joku
Borôro
Pronunciation
Noun
joku
Finnish
Etymology
From the pronoun stems jo- (see joka) + ku-.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
joku
- (indefinite) someone, somebody
- (indefinite, colloquial) something
- joku muu ― "something else" and "somebody else"
- ~ muu = other (not the one previously referred to).
Determiner
joku
- (indefinite, colloquial) one, a, any, some
- Äiti, ovella on joku kaupustelija.
- Mom, there's a salesman at the door.
- Joku kaupustelija kävi meillä eilen.
- Some salesman visited us yesterday.
- Ota joku näistä!
- Take one of these!
Usage notes
- In colloquial Finnish, the paradigms of jokin (used of non-human referents in the standard language) and joku (for human referents) have merged. Thus, colloquially, the word joku is used for the nominative singular and its plural form jotkut is used for the nominative plural when referring to both human and non-human referents, but for all other case categories, the forms originating in the paradigm of jokin are used. This leads to the following pairs in colloquial Finnish:
- joku mies / jollekin miehelle
- some man / to some man
- joku pöytä / jollekin pöydälle
- some table / onto some table
- and in the standard language:
- joku mies / jollekulle miehelle
- (meanings as above)
- jokin pöytä / jollekin pöydälle
- (meanings as above)
Inflection
- Case suffixes are regular. Both the parts get the case suffix. Some cases are practically never used (those forms are in brackets in the table). The lative and causative cases are used as adverbs with completely different meanings than "some" or "someone".
Declension of joku
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Related terms
Pronouns with same stems:
See also
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
joku
Latvian
Noun
joku m
- (deprecated template usage) accusative singular form of joks
- (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular form of joks
- (deprecated template usage) genitive plural form of joks
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