Etymology
some + what
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈsʌmwɒt/
- (US) IPA: /ˈsʌmwʌt/
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- Hyphenation: some‧what
Adverb
somewhat (not comparable)
- To a limited extent or degree.
- The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
- The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
Translations
limited extent
- Bulgarian: малко (bg) (málko), до известна степен (bg) (do izvéstna stépen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 多少 (cmn) (duōshǎo), 有點 (cmn), 有点 (cmn) (yǒudiǎn), 幾分 (cmn), 几分 (cmn) (jǐfēn), 有些 (cmn) (yǒuxiē), 有所 (cmn) (yǒusuǒ)
- Czech: poněkud (cs)
- Dutch: ietwat (nl), een beetje (nl), enigszins (nl)
- Finnish: jonkin verran (fi), jossain määrin (fi)
- French: assez (fr), quelque peu (fr)
- German: etwas (de), einigermaßen (de)
- Irish: breis (ga)
- Japanese: 多少 (ja) (たしょう, tashō), やや (ja) (yaya), ある程度 (ja) (あるていど, aru teido)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: نهختێک (ckb), کهمێک (ckb)
- Macedonian: донекаде (mk) (donékade)
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- Norwegian: noen lunde (no)
- Polish: trochę (pl), nieco (pl), dość (pl)
- Portuguese: um tanto, meio (pt)
- Romanian: întrucâtva (ro)
- Russian: несколько (ru) (néskolʹko), отчасти (ru) (otčasti), в некоторой степени (ru) (v nékotoroj stépeni), до некоторой степени (ru) (do nékotoroj stépeni), немного (ru) (nemnógo)
- Scottish Gaelic: leth-char (gd), car (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian: ponešto (sh), donekle (sh)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: tšochu
- Spanish: algo (es), un poco (es)
- Turkish: biraz (tr), bir nebze (tr), bir miktar (tr), bir parça (tr)
- Volapük: boso (vo)
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See also
Pronoun
somewhat
- (now archaic) Something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
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