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some

See also: Some, somé, and -some

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English som, sum, from Old English sum (“some, a certain one”), 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”), Low German somige (“some”), Dutch sommige (“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.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

some

  1. 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.
  2. An indefinite quantity.
    Can I have some of them?
  3. An indefinite amount, a part.
    Please give me some of the cake.
    Everyone is wrong some of the time.

SynonymsEdit

  • (an indefinite quantity): a few

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DeterminerEdit

some

  1. A certain proportion of, at least two.
    Some people like camping.
    • 2006, Charles H Lippy, Faith in America [Three Volumes] [3 Volumes]: 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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[1]:
      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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. (informal) A remarkable.
    He is some acrobat!

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Derived termsEdit

terms derived from some

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AdverbEdit

some (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.

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See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • some at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • some in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Contraction of sosiaalinen media (“social media”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

some

  1. (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.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of some (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
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
comitative — someineen
Possessive forms of some (type nalle)
possessor singular plural
1st person someni somemme
2nd person somesi somenne
3rd person somensa

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GalicianEdit

VerbEdit

some

  1. third-person singular present indicative of sumir

ItalianEdit

NounEdit

some f

  1. plural of soma

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Hyphenation: so‧me

Etymology 1Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

some

  1. inflection of somar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

some

  1. inflection of sumir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

some (Cyrillic spelling соме)

  1. vocative singular of som
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