Word
Meillä ei ole ollenkaan kofeiinia.
Meaning
We do not have any caffeine at all.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Meillä ei ole ollenkaan kofeiinia.
olla
to be
me
we
ei
no / not (en, et, ei, emme, ette, eivät)
ollenkaan
at all
Questions & Answers about Meillä ei ole ollenkaan kofeiinia.
Could I use lainkaan instead of ollenkaan here?
Yes, you can replace ollenkaan with lainkaan without changing the meaning. Both mean "at all" in negative sentences. The only difference is that lainkaan sounds slightly more formal or literary, while ollenkaan is very common in everyday spoken Finnish.
Why does ollenkaan come before kofeiinia, when in English "at all" goes at the end of the sentence?
In Finnish, modifying adverbs like ollenkaan usually sit right after the verb they modify—in this case, the negative verb block ei ole. You could actually say Meillä ei ole kofeiinia ollenkaan, but putting it right after the verb is the most neutral and natural word order.
As a refresher, why must kofeiinia be in the partitive case here?
Two rules overlap to cause this. First, this is a negative "having" sentence (ei ole), and the object of a negative possession structure must always be in the partitive. Second, caffeine is an uncountable mass noun, which often takes the partitive even in positive sentences when referring to an unspecified amount.