some

View more Business & Finance videos

1. The use of some to mean 'very much' or 'notably such' in sentences of the type. This is some party is still considered suitable mainly for informal contexts, and Churchill's famous line in a speech in 1941, Some chicken! Some neck! (in response to a warning that England would have her neck wrung like a chicken), does not seem to have affected popular perception of it. It is also used ironically with the opposite meaning in sentences such as Some friend he is to treat you like that!

2. In American English some is used to mean 'to some extent', as in She thought about it some, in the same way that any is used to mean 'at all' (You haven't aged any), and is occasionally used with the meaning 'somewhat' to qualify an adjective

He's going to be some pissed off when he finds out about this—M. Machlin, 1976.

These uses are not found in British English.

3. When some is used before a number, the number should be an approximate or rounded one:

A row over the seating of the wives of a Gulf VIP held up a British Airways flight from Milan for almost three hours, resulting in some 50 fellow passengers missing connections—Guardian, 2007.

4. The phrase some of us may be treated as a first-person or a third-person phrase depending on the degree of involvement by the speaker or writer: Some of us want to change our plans includes the speaker whereas Some of us want to change their plans excludes or at least distances the speaker from the intended change of plans. The choice only arises when a personal or possessive pronoun or adjective (here our and their) follows in the sentence.

Previous:	sombrero, sombre, soluble, solvable
Next:	somebody, someone, someday, someplace

adjective

Consisting of a number more than two or three but less than many: divers, several, sundry, various. See big/small/amount.

IN BRIEF: An unspecific amount. Also: People or things not named or known.

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live. — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist.

LearnThatWord.com is a free vocabulary and spelling program where you only pay for results!

sign description: The side of the hand slides down the palm of the other hand.

---

adjective
adjective, orig US

1: A remarkable (...); notably such (a.1808 —) .
W. S. Churchill When I warned them [the French Government] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister...: 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken! Some neck! (1941). pron

2: to get some US To have sex; to succeed in finding a sexual partner. (1889 —) .
J. Krantz Since his last visit she was getting some, somewhere, he'd bet his life on it (1978).

3: and then some mainly US And (plenty) more in addition.
T. E. Lawrence It...will be 12 guineas and then some! (1931). adverb

4: to go some US To go well or fast; to do well; to work hard. (1911 —) .
H. Lieberman He'd known the girl for two months; for Daughtry that was going some (1982).

Previous:	sollicker, solitary, solid
Next:	something, sometimey, son of a bitch

For a list of words related to some, see:

• Limitations and Conditions
• Approximations and Generalizations

---

See words rhyming with "some."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Some.

Common misspelling(s) of some

• soem
• smoe

Dansk (Danish)
det. - nogen, noget, nogle
pron. - nogen, noget, nogle
adv. - noget
adj. - noget, nogen, nogle, en eller anden

idioms:

• some day    en eller anden dag
• some more    noget mere
• some of    noget af
• some say    det siges

Nederlands (Dutch)
enige, enig, een paar, enkele, sommige, een of ander(e), verscheidenen, sommigen, ongeveer

Français (French)
det. - d', de, des, un minimum, certains/certaines, assez (longtemps), plusieurs, un peu, une sorte de, pas beaucoup, ça c'est quelqu'un(e)
pron. - quelque, certains
adv. - environ, autour de, (US) un peu
adj. - un peu, plusieurs, certains, quelques-uns/unes, quelque(s), ça c'est quelqu'un(e)

idioms:

• and then some    et pas qu'un peu (excl)
• some day    un jour
• some more    encore quelques-uns/unes
• some of    quelques-uns/unes
• some say    certains disent

Deutsch (German)
pron. - einige
adv. - etwas, etwa
adj. - einige, irgendeiner, etliche
det. - einige

idioms:

• and then some    und noch einige/einiges mehr
• some day    eines Tages, irgendwann einmal
• some more    noch welche, noch etwas
• some of    einige
• some say    manche sagen

Ελληνική (Greek)
pron. - κάποιοι, μερικοί, κάποιο, λίγο
adv. - λίγο
adj. - μερικοί, ορισμένοι, λίγο, κάποιος, περίπου

idioms:

• some day    κάποτε, κάποια μέρα
• some more    λίγο ακόμη
• some of    ορισμένοι από
• some say    λένε κάποιοι

Italiano (Italian)
un/a certo/a, alcuni, parecchi, pochi

idioms:

• some day    un giorno o l'altro
• some more    ancora un po'
• some of    qualche
• some say    si dice

Português (Portuguese)
pron. - algumas (f pl), alguma (f), um (m), umas (f pl), algum (m), uma (f), alguns (m pl), uns (m pl)
adv. - um bocado (m), um pouco (m), um tanto (m)
adj. - de uma pessoa ou pessoas, um número indefinido ou montante

idioms:

• some day    algum dia
• some more    um pouco mais
• some of    um pouco de
• some say    alguns dizem

Русский (Russian)
какой-нибудь, какой-то, некий, некоторые, другие, некоторое количество, немного, несколько, немало, приблизительно

idioms:

• some day    когда-нибудь, в один прекрасный день
• some more    еще немного
• some of    некоторые из, кое-что из
• some say    (некоторые) говорят

Español (Spanish)
pron. - alguno, algunos, parte, una parte, una porción
adv. - un poco, aproximadamente, más o menos, algo
adj. - alguno, algunos, unos, unos cuantos, un par de, varios, parte, cierto, un poco, bastante

idioms:

• and then some    y mucho más de eso, y más todavía
• some day    algún día, un día de estos
• some more    algo más, algunos más
• some of    un poco de
• some say    algunos dicen, hay quien dice

Svenska (Swedish)
pron. - någon, något, några
adv. - en del, ganska så, omkring
adj. - åtskilligt, inte så litet, en del

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
一些, 某一, 少许, 若干, 一部分, 大约

idioms:

• some day    将来, 有朝一日
• some more    还要, 更多
• some of    一些
• some say    一些人说...

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
det. - 一些, 某一, 少許
pron. - 一些, 若干, 一部分
adv. - 大約
adj. - 一些, 某一, 少許

idioms:

• some day    將來, 有朝一日
• some more    還要, 更多
• some of    一些
• some say    一些人說...

한국어 (Korean)
det. - 조금의, 어떤, 얼마간의
pron. - 다소, 얼마간, 어떤 것
adv. - 약 ~, 얼마쯤, 꽤
adj. - 얼만가의, 무언가의, 사람에 따라 ~도 있다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 幾らかの
adv. - やや, ひどく

idioms:

• for some reason    どういうわけか
• go to some trouble    大変な事になる
• in some measure    多少
• in some sort    ある程度
• some day    いつか
• some more    もう少し多く
• some of    いくらかの
• some say    ある人によると
• take some beating    越えるのが困難だ, 一番だ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ضمير) بعض (ظرف) نحو (صفه) رائع أو هام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
det. - ‮מספר כלשהו, כמות כלשהי, לא ידוע, לא מוגדר, בקירוב (מספר), מספר גדול, כמות ניכרת, לפחות כמות קטנה, כמות מסוימת‬
pron. - ‮קצת, מעט, כמה, אחדים‬
adv. - ‮במידה כלשהי, כהלכה‬
adj. - ‮מצויין, בערך, מסויים, איזשהו, ראוי לציון‬

If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here.