williamylee

[mint steppe]

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[snow pike]

It means « anybody ». Don't hesitate to check up these type of locutions in a dictionary :) https://www.wordreference.com/fren/qui que ce soit

[lunar grail]

I have seen it translated as anybody, but I don't understand why that is

How does "qui que ce soit" connect together to make "anybody"?

[snow pike]

Hahaha that's pretty idiomatic, there's a lot of complex words combinations in French that translate with simple words in foreign languages (« qu'est-ce que c'est que ça », « quoi que ce soit », etc.)

But if you take each word separately, qui means 'who', que and ce aren't really translatable individually but make the sentence correct grammatically together, and soit is a conjugation of être (to be).
So it's something like 'who[ever] it may be' when we put it together