Breakdown of Tämä aavekaupunki on täysin eloton. En luota täällä keneenkään.
tämä
this
olla
to be
täällä
here
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
Questions & Answers about Tämä aavekaupunki on täysin eloton. En luota täällä keneenkään.
Why is "anyone" translated as keneenkään here?
The verb luottaa (to trust) requires the illative case (the "into" case). The base word is kukaan (anyone/nobody). To inflect it, we take the illative of the root word kuka, which is keneen, and attach the negative suffix -kään to get keneenkään.
Why does trusting someone use the illative case?
In Finnish, trusting or believing in someone is thought of as directing your feeling into them. This is why verbs like luottaa (to trust) and uskoa (to believe) require the illative case (keneen) rather than a case like the allative (kenelle).
What would happen if I forgot the -kään ending and just said "En luota täällä keneen"?
It would sound grammatically incomplete. Without the suffix, keneen is just the question word "into whom?". The -kaan/-kään suffix is strictly required in negative sentences to turn these roots into negative indefinite pronouns like "anyone" or "anything".
How does the word eloton work?
It is formed from the root elo (life) combined with the suffix -ton, which means "without" or "-less". It is used exactly like the English suffix "-less" to create adjectives.