jokin

Etymology
Pronoun stem (see ) + enclitic particle.

Pronoun

 * 1)  something

Determiner

 * 1)  some, one, a

Usage notes

 * In colloquial Finnish, the forms of (used to refer to non-human things in the standard language) and  (used to refer to humans in the standard language) have merged, especially when used as modifiers (for example, . In referring to both humans and non-human things,  is used as a modifier in everyday speech and writing in the nominative singular  and genitive singular  and the nominative and accusative plural , but the forms of  are used in all other grammatical cases to refer to both humans and non-human things. When used alone, not as modifiers, the forms of  and  are however usually still distinguished, even in everyday speech, in the nominative singular/plural, genitive singular and the partitive singular/plural. This is shown by the following examples of colloquial usage:
 * and the following examples of formal (standard language) usage:
 * and the following examples of formal (standard language) usage:
 * and the following examples of formal (standard language) usage:

Declension
The case suffixes are regular: only the first part is declined; the enclitic particle  doesn't change its form. Some cases have parallel forms without the. The instructive and abessive cases are extremely rarely or never used. The sublative, lative, and causative forms are used as adverbs.