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  1. indpron|k=en|substantiivinen jokin, jotakin

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jokin, jokin|alt=jotakin

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jokin|alt=jotakin An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.

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(quote-magazine)
puhekieltä A quality to a moderate degree.
(quote-book)
puhekieltä A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
puhekieltä Somebody or something who is superlative in some way.
Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
puhekieltä somewhat Somewhat; to a degree.
puhekieltä To a high degree.
(quote-book)|page=51|author=(w)|year=1913|passage=You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.
(quote-journal)
Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
1890, w:William Dean Howells|William Dean Howells, w:A Hazard of New Fortunes|A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw
He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1887128913&id=qB-D32yV1VAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&sig=9AYyYLA-MQqTgAbptreoe3VyOzQ
She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
2005, Floyd Skloot, A World of Light http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803243189&id=TEgRGe6FiTkC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&sig=zEj4BPQ0eEFkj6LdOI8eRJlZrzE
Oh how we somethinged on the hmmm hmm we were wed. Dear, was I ever on the stage?”
An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
1999, Nicholas Clapp, The Road to Ubar http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0395957869&id=3ikdzDKkQ04C&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&sig=UNimtwdgeC_w_wqGXfa4LsCDik8
What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
2004, Theron Q Dumont, The Master Mind http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0766185435&id=-n_jW7BVfawC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=ou-CrIyWbKyZQ0s3q0uaJTiHdsI
Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.
2004, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0060738197&id=rKeKLf7LeXAC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&sig=uAeyLuj-HYk1dLAme_rokCWQITc
She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass.

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