Ingen kan jukse.

No one can cheat.

Breakdown of Ingen kan jukse.

• ingen: no one
• kan: can
• jukse: to cheat

Questions & Answers about Ingen kan jukse.

What does ingen mean here?

Ingen means no one / nobody in this sentence.

So Ingen kan jukse means No one can cheat or Nobody can cheat.

A useful thing to remember is that ingen can also mean no / none in other contexts, depending on what it refers to.

Examples:

• Ingen kom. = Nobody came.
• Jeg har ingen penger. = I have no money.

In your sentence, ingen stands alone as the subject, so it means no one.

Why is the verb kan in second position?

Norwegian main clauses usually follow the V2 rule (verb second), which means the finite verb comes in the second position.

In Ingen kan jukse:

• Ingen = subject
• kan = finite verb
• jukse = main verb

So the structure is:

• Subject + finite verb + infinitive

This is completely normal Norwegian word order.

What exactly does kan mean here?