some
pronunciation
How to pronounce some in British English:
UK [səm , sʌm]
How to pronounce some in American English:
US [səm , sʌm]
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- Adjective:
- quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
- unknown or unspecified
- relatively many but unspecified in number
- remarkable
- relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
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- Adverb:
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Word Origin
- some
- some: [OE] Some goes back ultimately to Indo- European *smmos, which passed into prehistoric Germanic as *sumaz. This has now died out in most Germanic languages other than English, although a few derivatives survive, such as Dutch sommige ‘some’. The Indo-European form also produced Greek hamos ‘somehow’ and Sanskrit samás ‘some, every’, and variants of the base from which it came have also given English same, seem, similar, and simple.=> same, seem, similar, simple
- some (adj.)
- Old English sum "some, a, a certain one, something, a certain quantity; a certain number;" with numerals "out of" (as in sum feowra "one of four"); from Proto-Germanic *suma- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German sum, Old Norse sumr, Gothic sums), from PIE *smm-o-, suffixed form of root *sem- (1) "one," also "as one" (adv.), "together with" (see same). For substitution of -o- for -u-, see come. The word has had greater currency in English than in the other Teutonic languages, in some of which it is now restricted to dialect use, or represented only by derivatives or compounds .... [OED] As a pronoun from c. 1100; as an adverb from late 13c. Meaning "remarkable" is attested from 1808, American English colloquial. A possessive form is attested from 1560s, but always was rare. Many combination forms (somewhat, sometime, somewhere) were in Middle English but often written as two words till 17-19c. Somewhen is rare and since 19c. used almost exclusively in combination with the more common compounds; somewho "someone" is attested from late 14c. but did not endure. Scott (1816) has somegate "somewhere, in some way, somehow," and somekins "some kind of a" is recorded from c. 1200. Get some "have sexual intercourse" is attested 1899 in a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln from c. 1840.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Some seem to think so .
- 2. Some did not make it .
- 3. Some stress the medical benefits .
- 4. Some companies go even further .
- 5. Some japanese firms are booming .