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The word "ajn" is a particle in Esperanto used with relative and interrogative pronouns or adverbs to generalize them, giving a meaning of "-ever" or "any" like in "kio ajn" (whatever) or "kiu ajn" (whoever).

La vorto "ajn" estas partikulo en Esperanto uzata kun relativaj kaj demand-pronomoj aŭ adverboj por ĝeneraligi ilin, donante signifon de "ajnas" aŭ "ie ajn" kiel en "kio ajn" (whatever) aŭ "kiu ajn" (whoever).

Frequency Rank of Word 75
Word ajn
Meanings
    used with
    ki-
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ki-#Esperanto
    and
    i-
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/i-#Esperanto
    correlatives
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Esperanto_correlatives
    to generalize them, meaning
    -ever
    /
    -soever
    or
    any
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/any#English
    /
    at all
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_all#English
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
ein
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ein#German
, as in
irgendein
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/irgendein#German
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ajn/
  • Hyphenation: ajn
  • Audio:
    (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Eo-ajn.ogg
    )

Particle

ajn

  1. used with
    ki-
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ki-#Esperanto
    and
    i-
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/i-#Esperanto
    correlatives
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Esperanto_correlatives
    to generalize them, meaning
    -ever
    /
    -soever
    or
    any
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/any#English
    /
    at all
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_all#English
    kio
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kio#Esperanto
    ( what )
    kio ajn
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kio_ajn#Esperanto
    ( whatever )
    kiu
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiu#Esperanto
    ( who )
    kiu ajn
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiu_ajn#Esperanto
    ( whoever )
    ie
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ie#Esperanto
    ( somewhere )
    ie ajn
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ie_ajn#Esperanto
    ( anywhere )
    io
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/io#Esperanto
    ( something )
    io ajn
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/io_ajn#Esperanto
    ( anything )
    Li kredos kian ajn senkulpigon kiun
    iu ajn
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iu_ajn#Esperanto
    donos al li.
    He’ll believe whatever kind of excuse that anyone at all gives him.
    iu
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iu#Esperanto
    ( someone )
    iu ajn
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iu_ajn#Esperanto
    ( anyone )

Derived terms

  • ajna
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ajna#Esperanto
    (
    any
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/any
    at all
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_all
    )
  • ajne
  • ajno
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ajno#Esperanto
    (
    anything
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anything
    at all
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_all
    )
  • ajnulo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ajnulo#Esperanto

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