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Interlingua
Pronoun
alcuno
- Some person: somebody, someone.
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from Classical Latin aliquem (“someone, something”) + ūnum (“one”).[1]
Cognate with French aucun, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈku.no/
- Rhymes: -uno
- Hyphenation: al‧cù‧no
Adjective
alcuno (feminine alcuna, masculine plural alcuni, feminine plural alcune)
- (in the plural) some, a few
- Synonym: qualche
- (in negative phrases) no
- Synonym: nessuno
References
- ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 140
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