"Finns det inget kaffe?!"
Translation:Is there no coffee?!
February 4, 2015
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Athalawulfaz
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Yes - it's a deponent verb from the Old Norse Middle Voice - or 'passive' forms.
Basically Old Norse had forms which included the reflexive pronouns onto it - so 'sek' (Swedish 'sig') became -sk on the end of a verb. English has borrowed such words from Old Norse, including 'bask', which derives from 'baðask', literally 'bathe oneself.'
In Swedish, as well as Norwegian and Danish, this suffix was weakened into -s. Thus 'finnes' is from Old Norse finnask, meaning 'to find oneself,' or 'to be found'.