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Most common English words: could « our « than « #65: some » other » very » uponEtymology
From Middle English, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Germanic *sumaz (“some, a certain one”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with Old Frisian sum (West Frisian sommige, somlike, “some”), Old Saxon sum (Dutch sommige, “some”), Middle High German sum (German dialectal summige, “some”), Danish somme (“some”), Gothic (sums, “one, someone”). More at same.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
some
- A certain number, at least one.
- 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.
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Determiner
some
- A certain proportion of, at least one.
- 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?
- 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.
- (informal) a remarkable.
- He is some acrobat!
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terms derived from someTranslations
certain proportion of
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Adverb
some (not comparable)
- Of a measurement; approximately, roughly
- I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.
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Galician
Verb
some
- third-person singular present indicative of sumir.
Italian
Noun
some f.
- Plural form of soma.
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