English Translation
He’ll be here any second.
Is the Finnish sentence correct? I don’t understand ‘minä hyvänsä’.
That’s the part that corresponds to “any”. It’s also synonymous with “tahansa” in this context. Wiktionary has many usage examples there: tahansa - Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Edit: In case you’re confused about “minä”, that’s the essive of “mikä” in this case, following the case of “hetkenä”. It’s not “I” here.
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Ha, yes, you are right I was confused by ‘minä’. However, I have seen similarly cases with ‘sinä’, for example ‘Olitteko heidän kanssaan sinä iltana?’.
The word order is a bit surprising; wouldn’t “minä hetkenä hyvänsä” or “minä hyvänsä hetkenä” also work?
I’m not a native, but I’ve only ever seen that word order.
There’s also the phrase “hinnalla millä hyvänsä” (“no matter the cost”). Wiktionary even has its own entry for that set phrase: hinnalla millä hyvänsä - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
If I ask an AI they say the word order is flexible, but some sound poetic. So chances are high the order we have here is the most common and natural.
A definitive answer would have to come from a native speaker, though.
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