someone

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈsʌmwʌn/

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Etymology

some + one

Pronoun

someone

1. some person.

   Is someone there?

Usage notes

• Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation.

  Did anyone help with the clean-up effort?

  Yes, someone helped yesterday, but no one did today because everyone was too busy.

Synonyms

• anybody, anyone, somebody

Abbreviation

Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o. or so for someone.

Translations

some person

American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz Arabic: أحد (ar) ('áHad) Armenian: մեկը (hy) (mekë) Asturian: daquién (ast) Bengali: কেউ একটা (bn) Bosnian: neko (bs) Bulgarian: някой (bg) (njakoj) Catalan: algú (ca) Chamicuro: ana'shanaye Chinese: Mandarin: 有人 (cmn) (yǒu rén), 某人 (cmn) (mǒurén), 誰 (cmn), 谁 (cmn) (shéi, shuí) Croatian: neko (hr) Czech: někdo (cs) Dutch: iemand (nl) Esperanto: iu (eo) Finnish: joku (fi) French: quelqu'un (fr) German: jemand (de) Greek: κάποιος (kapios) m. Hebrew: מישהו (he) Hungarian: valaki (hu) Icelandic: einhver (is) Ido: ulu (io) Indonesian: seseorang Interlingua: alicuno, alcuno

Italian: qualcuno (it) Japanese: 誰か (ja) (だれか, dare-ka), 或る人 (ja) (あるひと, aru hito) Korean: 누군가 (nugunga) Kurdish: Sorani: یه‌کێک (ku) (yekék), که‌سێک (ku) (kesék) Latin: aliquis m. and f., aliquid n., quidam (la) m. and f., quidam (la) n., quiddam (la) n., quaedam (la) f. Persian: کسی (fa) (kasi) Polish: ktoś (pl) Portuguese: alguém (pt) Romani: varekon Romanian: cineva (ro) Russian: кто-то (ru) (kto-to), кто-нибудь (ru) (kto-nibúd'), некто (ru) (nékto), кто-либо (ru) (kto-líbo) Scottish Gaelic: cuideigin (gd), (male) duin'-eigin (gd), (male) feareigin (gd), (female) tè-eigin (gd) Serbian: Cyrillic: неко Roman: neko Slovak: niekto, dakto, voľakto Spanish: alguien (es), alguno (es) Swedish: någon (sv) Telugu: ఎవరో (te) (evarO) Ukrainian: хтось (uk) (xtos') Volapük: ek (vo)

Noun

someone (plural someones)

1. A partially specified but unnamed person.

   Do you need a gift for that special someone?

   The someones under discussion were eventually arrested.

Related terms

• no one
• everyone
• anyone
• somewhere
• something