Väittämiäkään

Väittämiäkään is a Finnish grammatical construction formed by combining the plural partitive noun väittämiä (claims or statements) with the enclitic particle -kään, producing väittämiäkään. This form is used to emphasize that even the claims themselves are being referred to, typically in sentences marked by negation or contrast. It is not a separate lexeme with its own meaning, but a morphosyntactic pattern that highlights scope or extremity in discourse.

Morphology and usage: The base väittämiä reflects a plural, indefinite quantity of claims. The -kään particle (related to -kin) adds emphasis, often translating roughly as “even” or “not even,” and it attaches to the word it modifies. In practice, väittämiäkään appears most often in formal or written Finnish, especially in negative clauses or discourses where the speaker aims to undermine or restrict the asserted information.

Examples:

- En usko väittämiäkään. (I don’t believe the claims, not even any of them.)

- Hän ei vastannut väittämiäkään todisteista huolimatta. (He did not respond to the claims, despite the evidence.)

Notes: Väittämiäkään illustrates how Finnish uses discourse particles like -kään in combination with noun forms to modulate emphasis and negation. While not a separate lexeme, the construction is a useful example of Finnish syntax for researchers and students studying emphasis and negation in the language.

See also: Finnish grammar; -kin/-kään; negation; partitive case.