誰でも (anyone)

The free-choice pronoun 誰でも meaning 'anyone / anybody / everyone.' Built from 誰 ('who') + でも ('even / whatever'). With an affirmative verb it expresses universality ('everyone/anyone'); with a negative verb, the 誰も form is used for 'nobody' instead. Similar forms: 何でも ('anything'), どこでも ('anywhere'), いつでも ('anytime'). The variant 誰にでも ('to anyone') is a dedicated tag covering the dative-marked version.