It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".
Source: tatoeba (1589)
Someone
//ˈsʌmwʌn//
Synonyms for "someone" (50 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesdistinct from
2 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
130 translations across 82 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- iemand pron (some person)
Albanian
1 entries- dikush pron (some person)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τις pron (some person)
Arabic
1 entries- أَحَد pron (some person)
Armenian
2 entries- ինչ-որ մեկը pron (some person)
- մեկը pron (some person)
Asturian
1 entries- daquién pron (some person)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- kim isə pron (some person)
- kimsə pron (some person)
Belarusian
3 entries- не́хта pron (some person)
- хто́сьці pron (some person)
- хтось pron (some person)
Bengali
1 entries- কেউ একটা pron (some person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- някой pron (some person)
Catalan
2 entries- algú pron (some person)
- qualcú pron (some person)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- کەسێک pron (some person)
- یەکێک pron (some person)
Chamicuro
1 entries- ana'shanaye pron (some person)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 有人 pron (some person)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 有人 pron (some person)
- 某人 pron (some person)
- 誰 /谁 pron (some person)
Cornish
1 entries- nebonan pron (some person)
Czech
1 entries- někdo pron (some person)
Danish
2 entries- en eller anden pron (some person)
- nogen pron (some person)
Dutch
1 entries- iemand pron (some person)
Eastern Mari
3 entries- ала-кӧ pron (some person)
- иктаж pron (some person)
- кӧ pron (some person)
Esperanto
1 entries- iu pron (some person)
Estonian
1 entries- keegi pron (some person)
Finnish
1 entries- joku pron (some person)
French
1 entries- quelqu'un pron (some person)
Friulian
1 entries- ciertun pron (some person)
Galician
1 entries- alguén pron (some person)
German
4 entries- ebber pron (some person)
- einer pron (some person)
- epper pron (some person)
- jemand pron (some person)
Greek
1 entries- κάποιος pron (some person)
Hebrew
1 entries- מִישֶׁהוּ pron (some person)
Hindi
1 entries- कोई pron (some person)
Hungarian
1 entries- valaki pron (some person)
Icelandic
1 entries- einhver pron (some person)
Ido
1 entries- ulu pron (some person)
Indonesian
1 entries- seseorang pron (some person)
Interlingua
2 entries- alcuno pron (some person)
- alicuno pron (some person)
Italian
1 entries- qualcuno pron (some person)
Japanese
2 entries- 或る人 pron (some person)
- 誰か pron (some person)
Kapampangan
4 entries- ating tau pron (some person)
- ninuka pron (some person)
- ninula pron (some person)
- ninuman pron (some person)
Kazakh
1 entries- біреу pron (some person)
Korean
2 entries- 누군가 pron (some person)
- 어떤 사람 pron (some person)
Latgalian
1 entries- kaids pron (some person)
Latin
4 entries- aliquid pron (some person)
- aliquis pron (some person)
- quaedam pron (some person)
- quidam pron (some person)
Latvian
1 entries- kāds pron (some person)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kažkas pron (some person)
Macedonian
1 entries- некој pron (some person)
Malay
1 entries- seseorang pron (some person)
Marathi
2 entries- कोणी pron (some person)
- कोणी तरी pron (some person)
Mirandese
1 entries- alguien pron (some person)
Norman
1 entries- tchitch'un pron (some person)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- noen pron (some person)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- eikor pron (some person)
- einkvan pron (some person)
- nokon pron (some person)
Nǀuu
2 entries- ǂa pron (some person)
- ǂi pron (some person)
Occitan
1 entries- qualqu'un pron (some person)
Old English
3 entries- hwā pron (some person)
- man pron (some person)
- sum mann pron (some person)
Old Prussian
1 entries- aīnunts pron (some person)
Pennsylvania German
1 entries- ebber pron (some person)
Persian
2 entries- کسی pron (some person)
- یکی pron (some person)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- wäa pron (some person)
Polish
1 entries- ktoś pron (some person)
Portuguese
1 entries- alguém pron (some person)
Romani
1 entries- varekon pron (some person)
Romanian
1 entries- cineva pron (some person)
Russian
4 entries- кое-кто́ pron (some person)
- кто-нибу́дь pron (some person)
- кто́-либо pron (some person)
- кто́-то pron (some person)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- cuideigin pron (some person)
- duin'-eigin pron (some person)
- feareigin pron (some person)
- tè-eigin pron (some person)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- neko pron (some person)
- netko pron (some person)
- неко pron (some person)
- нетко pron (some person)
Slovak
3 entries- dakto pron (some person)
- niekto pron (some person)
- voľakto pron (some person)
Slovene
1 entries- nekdó pron (some person)
Spanish
2 entries- alguien pron (some person)
- alguno pron (some person)
Swedish
1 entries- någon pron (some person)
Tajik
1 entries- ким-кӣ pron (some person)
Talysh
1 entries- ای نفری pron (some person)
Telugu
1 entries- ఎవరో pron (some person)
Thai
1 entries- บางคน pron (some person)
Turkish
1 entries- biri pron (some person)
Ukrainian
2 entries- хто-не́будь pron (some person)
- хтось pron (some person)
Unami
1 entries- awèn pron (some person)
Uzbek
2 entries- birov pron (some person)
- kimsa pron (some person)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ai đó pron (some person)
Volapük
1 entries- ek pron (some person)
Welsh
1 entries- rhywun pron (some person)
West-Frisian
1 entries- immen pron (some person)
Yiddish
1 entries- עמעצער pron (some person)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.
Source: tatoeba (1795)
You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry the person whom you cannot live without.
Source: tatoeba (1853)
The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."
Source: tatoeba (2072)
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