Sometimes he can be a strange guy.
Source: tatoeba (1303)
Sometimes
//ˈsʌmtaɪmz//
Synonyms for "sometimes" (54 found)
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Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
205 translations across 95 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- partykeer adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- soms adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Albanian
1 entries- ndonjëherë adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐνίοτε adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Arabic
4 entries- أحيانا adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- أحيانا adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- أحيانا adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- أَحْيَانًا adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Armenian
1 entries- երբեմն adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- arabir adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- arada adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- bəzən adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- hərdən adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Basque
1 entries- batzuetan adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Belarusian
1 entries- ча́сам adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Bengali
1 entries- কখনো সখনো adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Bulgarian
1 entries- поня́кога adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Burmese
2 entries- တစ်ခါတစ်ခါ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ရံဖန်ရံခါ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Catalan
2 entries- a vegades adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- de vegades adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Cebuano
1 entries- usahay adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- جارجار adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- جاروبار adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Chinese
2 entries- 有時 /有时 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- 有時陣 /有时阵 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 有時 /有时 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 有時 /有时 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- 有時候 /有时候 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Cornish
1 entries- treweythyow adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Czech
1 entries- někdy adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Dakota
1 entries- tuktentu adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Danish
4 entries- af og til adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- indimellem adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- somme tider adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- stundom adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Dutch
4 entries- soms adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- somtijds adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- somwijlen adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- weleens adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Esperanto
4 entries- foje adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- fojfoje adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- iafoje adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- iufoje adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Estonian
1 entries- vahel adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Finnish
2 entries- joskus adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- toisinaan adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
French
4 entries- des fois adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- parfois adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- quelquefois adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- tantôt adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Galician
2 entries- ás veces adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ás vegadas adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Georgian
4 entries- დროგამოშვებით adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- დროდადრო adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ზოგჯერ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ხანდახან adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
German
3 entries- manchmal adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- mängist adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- mängmaal adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Greek
3 entries- ενίοτε adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- καμιά φορά adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- μερικές φορές adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- pafwa adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Hausa
1 entries- wani lokaci adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kekahi manawa adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Hebrew
2 entries- לְעִתִּים adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- לפעמים adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Hindi
2 entries- कभी adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- कभी कभी adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Hungarian
2 entries- néha adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- olykor adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Icelandic
2 entries- af og til adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- stundum adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Ido
1 entries- kelkafoye adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Indonesian
1 entries- kadang adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Ingrian
1 entries- välin adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Interlingua
1 entries- alicun vices, alcun veces, interdum adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Irish
3 entries- amanna adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- scaití adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- uaireanta adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Italian
3 entries- a volte adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- qualche volta adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- talvolta adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Japanese
3 entries- まま adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- 時々 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- 時時 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Javanese
4 entries- kadhangkala adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- kadhangkala adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- kadhangkala adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- kadhangkala adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- asbês adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Kazakh
1 entries- кейде adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Khmer
1 entries- ជួនកាល adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Korean
3 entries- 가끔씩은 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- 때때로 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- 자주 adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Laki
1 entries- گاجار adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Lao
1 entries- ບາງເທື່ອ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Latin
3 entries- aliquandō adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- interdum adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- nonnunquam adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Latvian
1 entries- dažreiz adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kartais adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Low German
2 entries- manchmal adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- somtyds adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- wótergi adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Macedonian
2 entries- некогаш adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- понекогаш adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Malay
1 entries- kadang-kadang adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Malayalam
1 entries- ചിലപ്പോഴൊക്കെ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Middle French
1 entries- aulcunesfoys adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Mongolian
1 entries- үе үе adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Norman
1 entries- parfeis adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- carina adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Norwegian
3 entries- av og til adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- stundom adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- tidvis adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Ojibwe
2 entries- aangodinong adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- naningodinong adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Old English
1 entries- hwīlum adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Persian
2 entries- بعضیوقتها adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- گاهی adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- eenjemol adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Polish
4 entries- czasami adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- czasem adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- niekiedy adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- od czasu do czasu adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Portuguese
1 entries- às vezes adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਕਦੀ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ਕਦੇ ਕਦੇ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Romanian
3 entries- câteodată adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ocazional adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- uneori adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Russian
4 entries- времена́ми adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- иногда́ adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- подча́с adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- поро́й adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कदापि adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Scots
1 entries- whiles adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- corra uair adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- uaireannan adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kàtkad adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- pònekad adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ка̀ткад adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- по̀некад adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Slovak
1 entries- niekedy adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Slovene
1 entries- včásih adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Southern Kurdish
2 entries- جارجار adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- گاجار adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Spanish
4 entries- a la de veces adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- a las [de] veces adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- a veces adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- algunas veces adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Swahili
1 entries- pengine adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Swedish
4 entries- av och till adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- då och då adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- emellanåt adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ibland adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Tagalog
1 entries- minsan adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Telugu
1 entries- అప్పుడప్పుడు adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Thai
2 entries- บางครั้ง adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- บางที adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Tunisian Arabic
1 entries- بعض ساعات adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Turkish
2 entries- ara sıra adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- bazen adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Ukrainian
4 entries- де́коли adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- ча́сом adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- і́нколи adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- і́нколи adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Urdu
4 entries- بعض اوقات adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- کبھی adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- کبھی کبھار adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- کبھی کبھی adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Uzbek
1 entries- baʼzan adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thỉnh thoảng adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Walloon
4 entries- pacô adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- padecô adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- tenawete adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
- tinzintins adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Welsh
1 entries- weithiau adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Zazaki
1 entries- ge-gane adv (on certain occasions, but not always)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Sometimes I can't help showing emotions.
Source: tatoeba (1349)
Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.
Source: tatoeba (1965)
Sometimes he has difficulty being articulate about his views.
Source: tatoeba (1991)
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