some
some - English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /sɐm/, [säm]
- Homophone: sum
Pronoun
some
- A certain number, at least two.
- Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
- 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
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Determiner
some
- A certain proportion of, at least two.
- Some people like camping.
- An unspecified quantity or number of.
- Would you like some grapes?
- An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).
- Would you like some water?
- After some persuasion, he finally agreed.
- 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.
- A considerable quantity or number of.
- He had edited the paper for some years.
- He stopped working some time ago.
- approximately, about (with a number).
- She had been employed at that company for some five years now.
- There were only some three or four cars in the lot at the time.
- (informal) A remarkable.
- He is some acrobat!
Synonyms
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Adverb
some (not comparable)
- Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.
- Synonyms: see 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.
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Anagrams
some - Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsome/, [ˈs̠o̞me̞]
- Syllabification: so‧me
Noun
some
- (informal) 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
| Inflection of some (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | some | somet | ||
| genitive | somen | somejen | ||
| partitive | somea | someja | ||
| illative | someen | someihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | some | somet | ||
| accusative | nom. | some | somet | |
| gen. | somen | |||
| genitive | somen | somejen someinrare | ||
| partitive | somea | someja | ||
| inessive | somessa | someissa | ||
| elative | somesta | someista | ||
| illative | someen | someihin | ||
| adessive | somella | someilla | ||
| ablative | somelta | someilta | ||
| allative | somelle | someille | ||
| essive | somena | someina | ||
| translative | someksi | someiksi | ||
| instructive | — | somein | ||
| abessive | sometta | someitta | ||
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Derived terms
Compounds
- someaddiktio
- someaika
- somealusta
- somehaaste
- somehitti
- somehuhu
- somehäirintä
- someilmiö
- somejulkaisu
- somejulkkis
- somekalenteri
- somekampanja
- somekanava
- somekansa
- somekasvatus
- somekieli
- somekiusaaja
- somekiusaaminen
- somekohu
- somekoomikko
- somekoukku
- somekulttuuri
- somekupla
- somekuva
- somekäyttäjä
- somekäyttäytyminen
- someloukkaantuminen
- someloukkaus
- somemainonta
- somemainos
- somemarkkinointi
- somepalvelu
- somepaniikki
- somepersoona
- somepostaus
- somepäivitys
- someraivo
- someriippuvuus
- sometili
- sometyö
- somevaikuttaja
- someviesti
- someviestintä
- someyhtiö
- someähky
Anagrams
some - Galician
Verb
some
- third-person singular present indicative of sumir
some - Italian
Noun
some f
- plural of soma
Anagrams
some - Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsõ.mi/
- (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsõ.mi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈso.me/
- (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɔ.m(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: so‧me
Verb
some
- inflection of somar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Verb
some
- inflection of sumir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
some - Serbo-Croatian
Noun
some (Cyrillic spelling соме)
- vocative singular of som