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See also:Some,somé,and-some

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsom,sum, fromOld Englishsum(“some, a certain one”), fromProto-West Germanic*sum, fromProto-Germanic*sumaz(“some, a certain one”), fromProto-Indo-European*sem-(“one, whole”).

CognateScotssum,some(“some”),North Frisiansom,sam,säm(“some”),West Frisiansommige,somlike(“some”), dialectalDutchsom,saom(“some”), standardDutchsommige(“some”),Low Germansomige(“some”),German dialectalsummige(“some”),Danishsomme(“some”),Swedishsomlig(“some”),Norwegiansum,som(“some”),Icelandicsumur(“some”),Gothic𐍃𐌿𐌼𐍃(sums,“one, someone”). More atsame.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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some

  1. Acertainnumber, at least two.
    Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.
    • 2013 July 19,Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page18:
      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.
  2. Anindefinitequantity.
    Can I havesome of them?
  3. Anindefiniteamount, apart.
    Please give mesome of the cake.
    Everyone is wrongsome of the time.

Synonyms

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  • (an indefinite quantity):a few

Antonyms

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Translations

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a certain number
indefinite quantity or number
indefinite amount, part
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Determiner

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some

  1. (stressed form) Anonzero,unspecifiedproportion of (a bounded set ofcountable things): at least two.
    Antonyms:zero,no;a lot of,many,numerous;countless
    Hypernyms:multiple,various
    Hyponyms:a few,acouple of,ahandful of
    Coordinate term:one
    Near-synonym:any
    Some people like camping.
    • 2006, Charles H Lippy,Faith in America[Three Volumes][3 Volumes]: Changes, Challenges, New Directions, Greenwood Publishing Group,→ISBN,page73:
      Many people, especiallysome evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence.
    • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      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 insome cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
    • 2013 July-August,Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, 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.
  2. Anonzero,unspecifiedquantity ornumber of (an unbounded set ofcountable things).
    Antonyms:zero,no;a lot of,many,numerous;countless
    Hypernyms:multiple,various
    Hyponyms:a few,acouple of,ahandful of
    Coordinate term:one
    Near-synonym:any
    Would you likesome grapes?
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,pages58–59:
      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 ofsome two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,page364:
      In the autumn there was a row atsome 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.
  3. Anunspecifiedamount of (somethinguncountable).
    Antonyms:zero,no
    Hyponyms:a little,a lot of,much
    Near-synonym:any
    Would you likesome water?
    Aftersome persuasion, he finally agreed.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,pages130–131:
      It was a joy to snatchsome 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.
  4. (stressed form) Acertain, anunspecified orunknown.
    I've just metsome guy who said he knew you.
    The sequence S converges to zero forsome initial value v.
    • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 4, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
      Bysome 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”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 1, page18:
      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 bysome unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
  5. (stressed form) Aconsiderable quantity or number of.
    He had edited the paper forsome years.
    He stopped workingsome time ago.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter II, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,page15:
      We drove back to the office withsome 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.
  6. (stressed form)Approximately,about (with a number).
    She has worked at the company forsome thirty years now. (31 and two months, to be exact.)
    There were onlysome 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, page129:
      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, beingsome 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, page142:
      the local police, who, with the investigator, reportedly placed a compass near the two signs that had rattled and found a deviation ofsome 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.
  7. (stressed form)Emphasizing a number.
    She has worked at the company forsome five years now! How remarkable!
  9. (informal, stressed form) Aremarkable.
    He issome acrobat!
    That wassome speech you gave!

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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certain proportion of
unspecified quantity or number of
unspecified amount of
certain, unspecified or unknown
considerable quantity or number of
informal: remarkable
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Adverb

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some (notcomparable)

  1. Of a measurement:approximately,roughly.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:approximately
    I guess he must have weighedsome 90 kilos.
    Some 30,000 spectators witnessed the feat.
    Some 4,000 acres of land were flooded.
  2. (dialect) To a certain extent, or for a certain period.
    • 2014, C. R. Scott,Invisible War: Attack the Covenant:
      They walkedsome and talkedsome.

Translations

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approximately, roughly

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Further reading

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Contraction ofsosiaalinen media(“social media”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsome/,[ˈs̠o̞me̞]
  • Rhymes:-ome
  • Hyphenation(key):so‧me

Noun

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some(informal or in compounds)

  1. social media
    Jos tänä päivänä aikoo menestyä politiikassa, on pakko ollasomessa.
    If one wants to be successful in politics nowadays, it's obligatory to be onsocial media.

Declension

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Inflection ofsome (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominativesomesomet
genitivesomensomejen
partitivesomeasomeja
illativesomeensomeihin
singularplural
nominativesomesomet
accusativenom.somesomet
gen.somen
genitivesomensomejen
someinrare
partitivesomeasomeja
inessivesomessasomeissa
elativesomestasomeista
illativesomeensomeihin
adessivesomellasomeilla
ablativesomeltasomeilta
allativesomellesomeille
essivesomenasomeina
translativesomeksisomeiksi
abessivesomettasomeitta
instructive—somein
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofsome(Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singularplural
nominativesomenisomeni
accusativenom.somenisomeni
gen.someni
genitivesomenisomejeni
someinirare
partitivesomeanisomejani
inessivesomessanisomeissani
elativesomestanisomeistani
illativesomeenisomeihini
adessivesomellanisomeillani
ablativesomeltanisomeiltani
allativesomellenisomeilleni
essivesomenanisomeinani
translativesomeksenisomeikseni
abessivesomettanisomeittani
instructive——
comitative—someineni
second-person singular possessor
singularplural
nominativesomesisomesi
accusativenom.somesisomesi
gen.somesi
genitivesomesisomejesi
someisirare
partitivesomeasisomejasi
inessivesomessasisomeissasi
elativesomestasisomeistasi
illativesomeesisomeihisi
adessivesomellasisomeillasi
ablativesomeltasisomeiltasi
allativesomellesisomeillesi
essivesomenasisomeinasi
translativesomeksesisomeiksesi
abessivesomettasisomeittasi
instructive——
comitative—someinesi
first-person plural possessor
singularplural
nominativesomemmesomemme
accusativenom.somemmesomemme
gen.somemme
genitivesomemmesomejemme
someimmerare
partitivesomeammesomejamme
inessivesomessammesomeissamme
elativesomestammesomeistamme
illativesomeemmesomeihimme
adessivesomellammesomeillamme
ablativesomeltammesomeiltamme
allativesomellemmesomeillemme
essivesomenammesomeinamme
translativesomeksemmesomeiksemme
abessivesomettammesomeittamme
instructive——
comitative—someinemme
second-person plural possessor
singularplural
nominativesomennesomenne
accusativenom.somennesomenne
gen.somenne
genitivesomennesomejenne
someinnerare
partitivesomeannesomejanne
inessivesomessannesomeissanne
elativesomestannesomeistanne
illativesomeennesomeihinne
adessivesomellannesomeillanne
ablativesomeltannesomeiltanne
allativesomellennesomeillenne
essivesomenannesomeinanne
translativesomeksennesomeiksenne
abessivesomettannesomeittanne
instructive——
comitative—someinenne

Derived terms

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compounds

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Galician

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Verb

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some

  1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofsumir
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofsumir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Italian

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Noun

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some f

  1. plural ofsoma

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Japanese

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Romanization

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some

  1. Rōmaji transcription ofそめ

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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sōme

  1. inflection ofsōm:
    1. nominativeplural
    2. accusativesingular/plural
    3. genitive/dativesingular

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:so‧me

Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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some

  1. inflection ofsomar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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some

  1. inflection ofsumir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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some (Cyrillic spellingсоме)

  1. vocativesingular ofsom
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