Mr. So-and-so called today.
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So-and-so
Synonyms for "so-and-so" (17 found)
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94 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- δεῖνα (deîna) noun (placeholder name)
- δεῖνα (deîna) noun (anything generic)
Arabic
4 entries- فلان noun (placeholder name)
- فلانة noun (placeholder name)
- فُلَان noun (placeholder name)
- فُلَان noun (anything generic)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- bəhman noun (placeholder name)
- filan noun (placeholder name)
- nəmnə noun (placeholder name)
Bashkir
2 entries- фәлән noun (placeholder name)
- фәлән-төгән noun (placeholder name)
Bengali
4 entries- অমুক noun (placeholder name)
- অমুক noun (anything generic)
- ফলনা noun (placeholder name)
- ফলনি noun (placeholder name)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- فِڵان noun (placeholder name)
- فیسار noun (placeholder name)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 某某 noun (placeholder name)
Czech
3 entries- ta a ta noun (placeholder name)
- ten a ten noun (placeholder name)
- to a to noun (placeholder name)
Egyptian
2 entries- mn:n-t:Y1 noun (placeholder name)
- mn:n:Y1 noun (placeholder name)
Esperanto
1 entries- ajnulo noun (placeholder name)
Finnish
3 entries- se ja se noun (placeholder name)
- se ja se noun (name used to take the place of an epithet)
- se ja tämä noun (anything generic)
French
4 entries- Machin noun (placeholder name)
- Tartempion noun (placeholder name)
- Trucmuche noun (placeholder name)
- Untel noun (placeholder name)
Galician
4 entries- aqueloutro noun (placeholder name)
- aqueloutro noun (anything generic)
- fulán noun (placeholder name)
- fulán noun (anything generic)
German
4 entries- das und das noun (placeholder name)
- der und der noun (placeholder name)
- die und die noun (placeholder name)
- so und so noun (anything generic)
Greek
2 entries- δείνα noun (anything generic)
- τάδε (táde) noun (placeholder name)
Indonesian
2 entries- si anu noun (placeholder name)
- si fulan noun (placeholder name)
Japanese
1 entries- 何々 noun (placeholder name)
Kapampangan
4 entries- kayi noun (placeholder name)
- kayi noun (name used to take the place of an epithet)
- kayi-kayi noun (anything generic)
- nanu-nanu noun (placeholder name)
Korean
4 entries- 무슨무슨 noun (placeholder name)
- 무엇무엇 noun (placeholder name)
- 뭐뭐 noun (placeholder name)
- 아무개 noun (placeholder name)
Maltese
2 entries- flien noun (placeholder name)
- fliena noun (placeholder name)
Māori
3 entries- kai a te kurī noun (placeholder name)
- mea noun (placeholder name)
- mea noun (anything generic)
Persian
4 entries- باستار noun (anything generic)
- بهمان noun (placeholder name)
- فلان noun (placeholder name)
- فلان noun (anything generic)
Polish
3 entries- taki owaki noun (placeholder name)
- taki owaki noun (anything generic)
- taki owaki noun (name used to take the place of an epithet)
Portuguese
4 entries- beltrano noun (placeholder name)
- fulano noun (placeholder name)
- sicrano noun (placeholder name)
- tal coisa noun (anything generic)
Romanian
4 entries- Cutărescu noun (placeholder name)
- X-uleasca noun (placeholder name)
- X-ulescu noun (placeholder name)
- cutare noun (placeholder name)
Russian
4 entries- и то и сё noun (placeholder name)
- та́к-то и та́к-то noun (anything generic)
- тако́й-сяко́й noun (name used to take the place of an epithet)
- то́-то и то́-то noun (placeholder name)
Spanish
3 entries- fulana noun (placeholder name)
- fulano noun (placeholder name)
- tal por cual noun (name used to take the place of an epithet)
Turkish
3 entries- falan noun (placeholder name)
- falan filan noun (placeholder name)
- filan noun (placeholder name)
Turkmen
2 entries- nämenäme noun (placeholder name)
- pylan noun (placeholder name)
Walloon
2 entries- Chôze noun (placeholder name)
- Tibî Meyî noun (placeholder name)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Mr So-and-so called today.
Source: tatoeba (1370384)
Mr So-and-So is dead. Why would I bother going to his funeral since, I am certain, he won't come to mine?
Source: tatoeba (1539957)
In Bali, the intergenerational forgetting of names is institutionalized. A woman will be known by her given name to peers. When she bears a son, the boy's age-mates will refer to her as "the mother of so-and-so."
Source: tatoeba (2047505)
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