No. 755 in Finnish
mikään
"Anything" or "nothing," depending on context.
In a sentence
Mikään ei ole mahdotonta.
Nothing is impossible.
In this sentence, 'mikään' is used as a pronoun to signify 'nothing' in an affirmative statement.
En nähnyt mitään erityistä, mutta mikään pieni yksityiskohta ei jäänyt huomiotta.
I didn't see anything special, but no small detail went unnoticed.
Here, 'mikään' is used in a negative clause to refer to 'any' in an inclusive sense.
Jos mikään asia ei miellytä sinua, voimme jatkaa keskustelua.
If nothing pleases you, we can continue the discussion.
In this conditional sentence, 'mikään' is utilized to express a hypothetical scenario where 'nothing' applies.
Mikään ei ole mahdotonta, kun uskot itseesi.
Nothing is impossible when you believe in yourself.
The word 'mikään' is used here to mean 'nothing', emphasizing the impossibility.
Eikö mikään näistä vaihtoehdoista sovi sinulle?
Doesn't any of these options suit you?
In this interrogative sentence, 'mikään' means 'any', addressing the alternatives presented.
Hän ei löytänyt mistään mitään, mikä olisi auttanut.
He couldn't find anything anywhere that would have helped.
Used in a negative sentence, 'mikään' emphasizes the absence of any suitable help or objects.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “mikään” in actual Finnish podcasts.
Find “mikään” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Finnish podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into suomi, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Finnish books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).