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plaese help me with finnish!!
can somebody tell me what "ei mikään varten tehdä" in english is???

Language pair: German; English

ArchivedMember
January 13, 2005

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Re:plaese help me with finnish!!
> can somebody tell me what "ei mikään
> varten tehdä" in english is???
>

The words do not form a correct sentence,
but the individual words are
"ei mikään" - "nothing"
"varten" - "for", "in purpose of"
"tehdä" - "to do"

If you replace "mikään" with "mitään",
you get a passive sentence meaning
"it is done for nothing", or
"it is done for no purpose".

Language pair: German; English
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Juha-Petri
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January 14, 2005

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