Translation
anyone, anything at all
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Examples
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And nobody answered.
.
I did not see anyone on the road.
nocuit.
Nor did this harm anyone.
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He said nothing whatever.
?
Have you heard anything more serious?
Quisquam, with the neuter quicquam or quidquam, is the "anyone, anything" reserved for negative and near-negative ground: after non, nec, sine and vix, in questions, and in comparisons. Put it in a plain affirmative sentence and it reads wrong. It has no plural and, as a rule, no separate feminine. The oblique cases are cuiusquam, cuiquam, quemquam, quoquam.
Keep it apart from its lookalikes, because Latin distributes the work carefully. Aliquis is "someone" in a positive statement, quisque is "each" of a set, quicumque and quisquis are "whoever". The neuter pairs with nihil for emphasis: nihil quicquam, "nothing at all", where the doubling is intensifying rather than a double negative.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 12: quisquam, aetas, articulus and 10 more words.