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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English som, sum, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate Scots sum, some (“some”), North Frisian som, sam, säm (“some”), West Frisian sommige, somlike (“some”), dialectal Dutch som, saom (“some”), standard Dutch sommige (“some”), Low German somige (“some”), German dialectal summige (“some”), Danish somme (“some”), Swedish somlig (“some”), Norwegian sum, som (“some”), Icelandic sumur (“some”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐍃 (sums, “one, someone”). More at same.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
some
- A certain number, at least two.
Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
- An indefinite quantity.
Can I have some of them?
- An indefinite amount, a part.
Please give me some of the cake.
Everyone is wrong some of the time.
Synonyms
- (an indefinite quantity): a few
Antonyms
Translations
certain number
- Adyghe: горэ (gʷorɛ)
- Arabic: بَعْضٌ m (baʕḍun)
- Armenian: որոշ (hy) (oroš), ոմանք (hy) (omankʻ)
- Azerbaijani: bəzi (az), bəzilər
- Belarusian: некато́ры (njekatóry)
- Bengali: একটু (bn) (ekṭu)
- Bulgarian: няколко (bg) (njakolko)
- Catalan: qualque (ca) m or f, qualcun (ca) m, qualcuna (ca) f, qualcuns (ca) m pl, qualcunes (ca) f pl, algun (ca) m, alguna (ca) f, alguns (ca) m pl, algunes (ca) f pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有的 (zh) (yǒude), 一些 (zh) (yīxiē)
- Chuukese: ekkoch
- Czech: nějaký (cs)
- Dalmatian: calco
- Danish: nogle (da) c pl
- Dutch: enigen (nl), sommigen (nl), enkele (nl), enkelen (nl)
- Finnish: jotkut (fi), muutamat, eräät, osa (fi), jokunen (fi)
- French: quelque (fr) m or f, quelques (fr) pl, certains (fr) m pl
- Galician: algún (gl) m
- German: einige (de), manche (de)
- Greek: μερικοί (el) m pl (merikoí), μερικές (el) f pl (merikés), μερικά (el) n pl (meriká)
- Hawaiian: kahi poʻe, kekahi poʻe
- Hungarian: egyesek pl, némelyek pl, néhányan (hu)
- Icelandic: sum (is) n pl, sumar (is) f pl, sumir m pl
- Indonesian: beberapa (id)
- Irish: daoine (ga) m pl
- Japanese: いくつか (ja) (ikutsuka), ある (ja)
- Kabardian: гуэр (kbd) (gʷɛr)
- Khmer: អ្នកខ្លះ (neak klah)
- Korean: 어떤 (ko) (eotteon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: hinek (ku), hindek (ku)
- Latin: quidam (la)
- Low German:
- German Low German: enige, enkelte, enkele
- Paderbornisch: einige
- Mirandese: algun
- Norwegian: visse (no) pl
- Bokmål: noen (no)
- Nynorsk: somme pl, nokon
- Portuguese: algum (pt) m
- Russian: не́который (ru) m (nékotoryj)
- Scots: sum, some
- Serbo-Croatian: neki m pl, neke (sh) f pl, neka (sh) n pl
- Spanish: alguno (es) m
- Sundanese: sababaraha
- Swedish: vissa (sv), somliga (sv), en del (sv), några (sv)
- Tagalog: may (tl), mayroon (tl)
- Tok Pisin: sampela
- Turkish: bazısı (tr), kimi (tr), kimisi (tr)
- Ukrainian: де́який (uk) (déjakyj)
- Vietnamese: vài (vi), một vài (vi), một số (vi), mấy (vi)
- Yiddish: עטלעכע (etlekhe), אַ ביסל (yi) (a bisl)
- Zazaki: tay
- Zealandic: sommige
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indefinite quantity or number
- Arabic: بَعْض m (baʕḍ)
- Armenian: մի քանիսը (mi kʻanisə)
- Asturian: dellos (ast)
- Azerbaijani: bir neçə
- Belarusian: не́калькі (be) pl (njékalʹki), тро́хі (tróxi)
- Bengali: একটু (bn) (ekṭu)
- Bulgarian: няколко (bg) (njakolko)
- Burmese: တချို့ (my) (ta.hkyui.), အချို့ (my) (a.hkyui.)
- Carpathian Rusyn: дакілько (dakilʹko)
- Catalan: qualques (ca) pl, tot de (ca), alguns (ca) m pl, algunes (ca) f pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一些 (zh) (yīxiē)
- Czech: několik (cs), trochu (cs)
- Danish: nogle (da)
- Dutch: wat (nl) (quantity), enige (nl) (number), enkele (nl) (number)
- Esperanto: iu (eo), iuj (eo) pl
- Finnish: joitakin (fi), muutamia (fi)
- French: du (fr) m, de la (fr) f, des (fr) pl
- German: ein paar (de), einige (de) pl, einige (de) pl
- Greek: μερικοί (el) m pl (merikoí), μερικές (el) f pl (merikés), μερικά (el) n pl (meriká)
- Hebrew: כַּמָה (he) (káma), אֲחָדִים m pl (akhadím), מְעַט (he) (me'át), קְצָת (he) (ktsat)
- Hindi: थोड़ा (hi) (thoṛā), कुछ (hi) (kuch), कोई (hi) (koī)
- Hungarian: pár (hu), néhány (hu), valahány (hu), egypár (hu), egynéhány (hu)
- Indonesian: beberapa (id)
- Irish: roinnt (ga) f
- Japanese: いくつか (ja) (ikutsuka), いくらか (ja) (ikuraka)
- Korean: 몇 (ko) (myeot)
- Low German:
- German Low German: en poor, enkelte, wat (nds), enige
- Maori: ētahi, he, ehinu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: noen (no)
- Nynorsk: nokre
- Polish: trochę (pl), kilka (pl)
- Portuguese: alguns (pt)
- Romanian: nişte (ro)
- Russian: немно́го (ru) (nemnógo), не́сколько (ru) (néskolʹko)
- Slovak: niekoľko, trochu, zopár
- Spanish: unos (es) m pl, unas (es) f pl
- Sundanese: sababaraha
- Swahili: baadhi (sw)
- Swedish: några (sv), en del (sv)
- Thai: บาง (th) (baang), มั่ง (th) (mâng)
- Tok Pisin: sampela
- Ukrainian: кі́лька (uk) (kílʹka), тро́хи (tróxy)
- Vietnamese: một ít
- Yoruba: àwọn
- Zazaki: tayn
- Zealandic: 'n paer
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indefinite amount, part
- Arabic: بَعْض m (baʕḍ)
- Armenian: մի քիչ (mi kʻičʻ)
- Azerbaijani: biraz (az), bir qədər
- Belarusian: тро́хі (tróxi)
- Bengali: একটু (bn) (ekṭu)
- Bulgarian: малко (bg) (malko)
- Catalan: tot de (ca), quelcom de, una mica de
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一些 (zh) (yīxiē)
- Danish: noget (da) n
- Dutch: (please verify) wat (nl), (please verify) een deel
- Finnish: jonkin verran (fi), joskus (fi) (some of the time)
- French: du (fr) m, de la (fr) f, des (fr) pl
- German: etwas (de)
- Greek: λίγο (el) (lígo)
- Hindi: कुछ (hi) (kuch), थोड़ा (hi) (thoṛā)
- Hungarian: valamennyi (hu), egy kevés, egy kicsi
- Irish: roinnt (ga) f, ábhar (ga) m
- Italian: del (it) m, della (it) f
- Low German:
- German Low German: wat (nds)
- Norwegian: som m, litt (no)
- Persian: کمی (fa) (kami)
- Polish: trochę (pl)
- Portuguese: um pouco de
- Russian: немно́го (ru) (nemnógo)
- Scots: sum
- Slovak: trochu
- Spanish: algo (es) n
- Swahili: baadhi (sw)
- Swedish: lite (sv), en del (sv)
- Tok Pisin: hap
- Ukrainian: тро́хи (tróxy)
- Zazaki: taynek
- Zealandic: wat
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Determiner
some
- A certain proportion of, at least two.
Some people like camping.
2006, Charles H Lippy, Faith in America : Changes, Challenges, New Directions, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 73:Many people, especially some evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
- An unspecified quantity or number of.
Would you like some grapes?
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 364:In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
- An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).
Would you like some water?
After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 130–131:It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, jump upon a tram, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
- A certain, an unspecified or unknown.
I've just met some guy who said he knew you.
The sequence S converges to zero for some initial value v.
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
- A considerable quantity or number of.
He had edited the paper for some years.
He stopped working some time ago.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 15:We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
- Approximately, about (with a number).
She has worked at the company for some thirty years now. (31 and two months, to be exact.)
There were only some three or four cars in the lot at the time.
2003, Richard N. Cooper, Richard Layard, What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 129:What other natural experiments might we have to test climate sensitivity? Another one that happens every year is the change in seasons. Winter predictably follows summer, being some fifteen degrees colder in the Northern Hemisphere and five degrees colder than summer in the Southern Hemisphere. The reason the Southern Hemisphere has a smaller seasonal cycle is because it has much more ocean than land, […]
2023, J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 142:the local police, who, with the investigator, reportedly placed a compass near the two signs that had rattled and found a deviation of some fifteen degrees. Placed next to the Renault in which they had come, the compass showed a deviation of only four degrees, but there was no deviation at all near the sign that had not rattled.
- Emphasizing a number.
She has worked at the company for some five years now! How remarkable!
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
certain proportion of
- Arabic: بَعْضٌ m (baʕḍun)
- Egyptian Arabic: بعض (baʕḍ)
- Armenian: որոշ (hy) (oroš)
- Azerbaijani: bəzi (az)
- Baluchi: لہتے (lahti, lahte)
- Bulgarian: няколко (bg) (njakolko)
- Burmese: အချို့ (my) (a.hkyui.), တချို့ (my) (ta.hkyui.)
- Catalan: algun (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎢᎦᏓ (igada)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 一啲 (jat1 dit1)
- Mandarin: 一些 (zh) (yīxiē), (countable) 幾個/几个 (zh) (jǐgè, jǐge)
- Danish: nogle (da) c pl
- Dutch: enige (nl) (countable), sommige (nl) (countable), enkele (nl) (countable)
- Finnish: jotkut (fi) (of people), jotkin (fi) (of things), osa (fi) (+ elative)
- French: certain (fr), certains (fr) pl, des (fr)
- German: einige (de), manche (de)
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐍃 (sums)
- Greek: μερικοί (el) m pl (merikoí), μερικές (el) f pl (merikés), μερικά (el) n pl (meriká)
- Hindi: कुछ (hi) (kuch)
- Hungarian: egyes (hu), néhány (hu), némely (hu), némelyik (hu), bizonyos (hu)
- Interlingua: alcun
- Irish: roinnt (ga)
- Italian: alcuno (it)
- Latin: aliqui (la), alii, nonnullus (la)
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: łaʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: visse (no), noen (no)
- Nynorsk: visse, nokre
- Polish: niektórzy pl or m, niektóre pl or f
- Portuguese: algum (pt)
- Russian: не́сколько (ru) (néskolʹko), немно́го (ru) (nemnógo)
- Scots: sum
- Swahili: baadhi ya (sw)
- Swedish: några (sv), en del (sv), vissa (sv)
- Thai: บาง (th) (baang)
- Tok Pisin: sampela
- Turkish: bazı (tr)
- Urdu: کچھ (kuch)
- Walloon: sacwants (wa) m or f, sacwantès (wa) f
- Welsh: rhai
- Zazaki: tay
- Zealandic: sommige
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unspecified quantity or number of
- Armenian: մի քիչ (mi kʻičʻ), մի քանի (mi kʻani)
- Aromanian: nishti
- Catalan: alguns (ca) m pl, algunes (ca) f pl
- Danish: nogle (da) c pl
- Dutch: wat (nl) (countable/uncountable), enkele (nl) (countable), enige (nl) (countable)
- Finnish: vähän (fi) (usually omitted), jokunen (fi)
- French: quelque (fr), quelques (fr) pl
- German: einige (de), welche (de), ein paar (de)
- Greek: λίγο (el) (lígo)
- Hebrew: כַּמָה (he) (káma), אֲחָדִים m pl (akhadím), מְעַט (he) (me'át), קְצָת (he) (ktsat)
- Hungarian: néhány (hu), pár (hu), egypár (hu), egynéhány (hu), valahány (hu)
- Indonesian: beberapa (id)
- Interlingua: qualque
- Italian: alcuno (it)
- Khmer: ន្តិចបន្តួច (bɑntəch bɑntuəch)
- Latin: aliqui (la)
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: łaʼ
- Norman: tchique
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: noen (no)
- Nynorsk: nokre
- Polish: kilka (pl) pl or f
- Portuguese: algum (pt)
- Romanian: niște (ro)
- Russian: expressed by genitive case
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: někotary
- Spanish: algunos (es) m pl, algunas (es) f pl
- Sundanese: sababaraha
- Swedish: några (sv), lite (sv), en del (sv)
- Talysh: (Asalemi) چن گله (can gəla)
- Tocharian B: ksa
- Tok Pisin: sampela
- Ukrainian: кі́лька (uk) (kílʹka)
- Walloon: sacwants (wa) m or f, sacwantès (wa) f, des (wa) m or f, kékes m or f, kékès f
- Welsh: rhai
- Wolof: ay (wo)
- Yoruba: àwọn
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unspecified amount of
- Danish: nogen (da) c, noget (da) n
- Dutch: wat (nl)
- Finnish: vähän (fi) (usually omitted)
- French: du (fr), de la (fr)
- German: etwas (de)
- Greek: λίγο (el) (lígo)
- Hungarian: némi (hu), egy kis, egy kevés, valamennyi (hu), valamelyes (hu)
- Khmer: បន្តិចបន្តួច (bɑntəch bɑntuəch)
- Latin: aliqui (la)
- Norwegian: litt (no)
- Polish: trochę (pl)
- Portuguese: um pouco (pt)
- Russian: expressed by genitive case
- Swedish: lite (sv), en del (sv)
- Talysh: (Asalemi) تیکهیی (tikei)
- Tok Pisin: sampela
- Walloon: do (wa) m, del (wa) f, ene miete di m or f, on pô do m, on pô del f
- Welsh: peth (cy)
- Zealandic: 'n bitje (implies a little quantity)
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certain, unspecified or unknown
- Armenian: մի (hy) (mi), ինչ-որ (inčʻ-or)
- Azerbaijani: hansısa
- Belarusian: які́сьці (jakísʹci), які́сь (jakísʹ), не́йкі (njéjki), які́-не́будзь (jakí-njébudzʹ), некато́ры (njekatóry)
- Bulgarian: ня́какъв (njákakǎv), ня́кой (njákoj)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有的 (zh) (yǒu de)
- Czech: nějaký (cs), některý (cs)
- Danish: en (da) c, et (da) n, en vis c, et vist n
- Dutch: (please verify) een (nl), (please verify) een zeker , (please verify) een of ander (nl)
- Esperanto: ia (eo)
- Finnish: eräs (fi), joku (fi), jokin (fi)
- French: quelconque (fr)
- German: irgendein (de)
- Greek: κάποιος (el) (kápoios)
- Hindi: कोई (hi) (koī), कुछ (hi) (kuch)
- Hungarian: valamilyen (hu), valamiféle (hu), valami (hu), egy bizonyos
- Indonesian: beberapa (id)
- Irish: éigin
- Old Irish: nach
- Japanese: ある (ja) (aru)
- Latin: quīdam (la)
- Macedonian: некој (nekoj)
- Polish: jakiś (pl) m
- Portuguese: algum (pt), um (pt)
- Russian: како́й-то (ru) (kakój-to), не́который (ru) (nékotoryj), како́й-нибудь (ru) (kakój-nibudʹ), не́кий (ru) (nékij) (a certain)
- Scottish Gaelic: air choireigin
- Slovak: nejaký, niektorý
- Sundanese: sababaraha
- Swedish: någon (sv), något (sv)
- Tok Pisin: sampela
- Turkish: bir (tr)
- Ukrainian: яки́йсь (uk) (jakýjsʹ), котри́йсь (kotrýjsʹ), де́який (uk) (déjakyj), яки́й-небудь (uk) (jakýj-nebudʹ)
- Urdu: کوئی (koī), کچھ (kuch)
- Vietnamese: nào đó, gì đó
- Walloon: on (wa) m, ene (wa) f
- Welsh: rhyw (cy)
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considerable quantity or number of
- Dutch: (please verify) aardig wat
- Finnish: joitakin (fi)
- German: einige (de), etliche (de)
- Greek: αρκετά (el) (arketá)
- Hebrew: כַּמָה (he) (káma), אֲחָדִים m pl (akhadím)
- Hungarian: jókora (hu), jó (hu), jó pár, jó néhány
- Indonesian: beberapa (id)
- Polish: kilka (pl) pl or f
- Portuguese: algum (pt)
- Russian: не́сколько (ru) (néskolʹko)
- Sundanese: sababaraha
- Walloon: sacwants (wa) m or f, sacwantès (wa) f, kékes m or f, kékès f, puzieurs (wa) m or f, puzieurès f
- Zazaki: teney
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- Arabic: (please verify) بَعْض (baʕḍ), (please verify) حَوَالِي (ḥawālī)
- Egyptian: بَعْض (baʕḍ)
- Czech: (please verify) nějaký (cs) m, (please verify) několik (cs)
- Esperanto: (please verify) kelke, (1) (please verify) kelka (eo), (2) (please verify) kelkaj (eo)
- Greek: (please verify) μερικοί (el) (merikoí), (please verify) λίγο (el) (lígo), (please verify) κάποιος (el) (kápoios)
- Ido: (please verify) kelka (io), (please verify) ula (io)
- Italian: (please verify) qualche (it)
- Japanese: (please verify) 或る (ja) (ある, aru), (please verify) 幾らか (ja) (いくらか, ikuraka), (please verify) 幾つか (ja) (いくつか, ikutsuka)
- Korean: (please verify) 어떤 (ko) (eotteon)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: (please verify) ھەنێک (henêk)
- Northern Kurdish: (please verify) hin (ku), (please verify) hinek (ku), (please verify) hindek (ku), (please verify) çendek (ku), (please verify) çend (ku)
- Macedonian: (please verify) некој m (nekoj), (please verify) некои pl (nekoi), (please verify) извесен m (izvesen), (please verify) извесни pl (izvesni), (please verify) еден (mk) m (eden), (please verify) едни pl (edni), (please verify) неколку (mk) (nekolku)
- Maltese: (please verify) xi
- Mandarin:
- Mandarin: (please verify) 一些 (zh) (yìxiē), (please verify) 有的 (zh) (yǒude), (please verify) 有些 (zh) (yǒuxiē), (please verify) 幾個/几个 (zh) (jǐgè), (please verify) 几个 (zh) (jǐ gè), (please verify) 某些 (zh) (mǒuxiē), (please verify) 某 (zh) (mǒu), (please verify) 些 (zh) (xiē)
- Norwegian: (please verify) noe (no) (uncountable), (please verify) noen (no) (countable)
- Romanian: (please verify) niște (ro), (please verify) câteva
- Slovak: (please verify) niekoľko
- Spanish: (please verify) algunos (es) m pl, (please verify) algunas (es) f pl
- Telugu: (please verify) కొన్ని (te) (konni), (please verify) కొందరు (te) (kondaru), (please verify) కొంత (te) (konta)
- Turkish: (please verify) biraz (tr), (please verify) bazı (tr), (please verify) yaklaşık (tr)
- West Frisian: (please verify) guon
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Adverb
some (not comparable)
- Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:approximately
I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
- (dialect) To a certain extent, or for a certain period.
2014, C. R. Scott, Invisible War: Attack the Covenant:They walked some and talked some.
Translations
approximately, roughly
- Armenian: մոտ (hy) (mot)
- Bulgarian: около (bg) (okolo)
- Catalan: al voltant de, sobre (ca), vora (ca)
- Dutch: ongeveer (nl)
- Finnish: jotakin (fi), jotakuinkin (fi), noin (fi), suunnilleen (fi)
- French: quelque (fr), environ (fr)
- German: ungefähr (de), etwa (de), um (de)
- Greek: περίπου (el) (perípou)
- Hindi: के लगभग (ke lagbhag)
- Hungarian: mintegy (hu), nagyjából (hu), körülbelül (hu)
- Japanese: 約 (ja) (やく, yaku)
- Latin: alii
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: иктаж (iktaž)
- Ngazidja Comorian: kadiri ya
- Norwegian: omtrent (no)
- Portuguese: uns (pt), mais ou menos (pt)
- Slovak: zhruba, približne
- Spanish: unos (es)
- Swedish: runt (sv), omkring (sv), cirka (sv), säkert (sv), nog (sv), väl (sv)
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See also
Further reading
- “some”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “some”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “some”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “some”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Contraction of sosiaalinen media (“social media”).
Pronunciation
Noun
some (informal or in compounds)
- social media
Jos tänä päivänä aikoo menestyä politiikassa, on pakko olla somessa.- If one wants to be successful in politics nowadays, it's obligatory to be on social media.
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
some
- third-person singular present indicative of sumir
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of sumir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Noun
some f
- plural of soma
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
some
- inflection of somar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
some
- inflection of sumir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
some (Cyrillic spelling соме)
- vocative singular of som