certain

Etymology
From, , , borrowed from , from a unattested form , extended form of , of the same origin as , past participle of. Displaced native 🇨🇬, (from 🇨🇬) and alternative 🇨🇬 spelling.

Adjective

 * 1) Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
 * 2) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
 * 3) Sure to happen, inevitable; assured.
 * 4) Unfailing; infallible.
 * 5) Fixed; regular; determinate.
 * 6) Particular and definite, but unspecified or unnamed;.
 * Every wine has a certain distinctive character which sets it apart from all others.
 * Each morning, she would see a certain man rush past her window on his way to work.
 * 1)  Named but not previously mentioned.
 * Looking inside the cover, they learned that the book had once belonged to a certain R. Jones.
 * 1)  Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
 * Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.
 * 1)  Determined; resolved.
 * 1) Fixed; regular; determinate.
 * 2) Particular and definite, but unspecified or unnamed;.
 * Every wine has a certain distinctive character which sets it apart from all others.
 * Each morning, she would see a certain man rush past her window on his way to work.
 * 1)  Named but not previously mentioned.
 * Looking inside the cover, they learned that the book had once belonged to a certain R. Jones.
 * 1)  Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
 * Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.
 * 1)  Determined; resolved.
 * 1)  Named but not previously mentioned.
 * Looking inside the cover, they learned that the book had once belonged to a certain R. Jones.
 * 1)  Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
 * Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.
 * 1)  Determined; resolved.
 * 1)  Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
 * Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.
 * 1)  Determined; resolved.
 * 1)  Determined; resolved.

Synonyms

 * ; See also Thesaurus:inevitable

Translations

 * Arabic: أَكِيد, مُتَأَكِّد
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ciertu
 * Azerbaijani: əmin
 * Belarusian: упэ́ўнены,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: akachelo'ta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: certa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ciert, sigûr, positîv
 * Georgian: უეჭველი, უდავო
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔμπεδος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cinnte, dearfa, deimhin
 * Istriot: sierto
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Khmer: ជាក់លាក់
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: cert, cërt
 * Latin: certus, fidus
 * Macedonian: сигурен, уверен
 * Maltese: ċert
 * Maori: taketake
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Odia:
 * Old English: gewiss
 * Old High German: giwis
 * Plautdietsch: wess
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: certu, tzertu, tzeltu
 * Scottish Gaelic: cinnteach, deimhinne
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: си̏гӯран, у̀верен
 * Roman:, ùveren
 * Sicilian: certu
 * Slovak: istý
 * Slovene: gotov
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tetum: tebes
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: упе́внений,
 * Venetian: çerto, serto, certo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: זיכער
 * Zazaki: emel, qeta


 * Arabic: بَعْض
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: які́сьці, не́йкі, які́сь
 * Bulgarian: някакъв, някой си
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τις
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin:
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: nejaký
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, котри́йсь,
 * Yiddish: געוויס
 * Zazaki: delil


 * Japanese:


 * Ido: (1),  (2)
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Telugu:

Determiner

 * 1) Having been determined but not specified.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُحَدَّد
 * Belarusian: не́йкі
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: ciart
 * Danish:, vist, visse
 * Esperanto: certa
 * Finnish:, , eräät
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გარკვეული
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, とある
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, nȅkī
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Yiddish: געוויס
 * Zazaki: beyan, delil

Pronoun

 * 1)  Unnamed or undescribed members (of).

Etymology
, from unattested form, extended form of.

Adjective

 * 1) certain, guaranteed sure, positive
 * 2) certain specified, particular
 * 3) certain of indefinite, unknown or simply unmentioned identity, quality or quantity
 * 1) certain specified, particular
 * 2) certain of indefinite, unknown or simply unmentioned identity, quality or quantity
 * 1) certain of indefinite, unknown or simply unmentioned identity, quality or quantity

Determiner

 * 1) certain: a determined but unspecified amount of; some

Usage notes

 * The plurals and  are generally not used with articles, functioning much like articles themselves. Nevertheless, particularly in circumstantial and objective complements introduced by  (including such compounds as ), they are sometimes supported by the indefinite article  — not to be confused with the preposition :

Etymology
From, derived from.

Adjective

 * 1) ; sure