someone

Etymology
From, , , equivalent to.

Pronoun

 * 1) One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
 * Can someone help me, please?
 * Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?

Usage notes

 * Logically related to, , and . Becomes 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

 * Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation or  for.
 * Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation or  for.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, ինչ-որ մեկը
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: хто́сьці, хтось, не́хта
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: някой
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chamicuro: ana'shanaye
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 有人
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: nebonan
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, en eller anden
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ciertun
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: epper, ebber
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τις
 * Hebrew: מִישֶׁהוּ
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: alicuno, alcuno
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 誰か, 或る人
 * Kapampangan: ninuman, ninu ka, ating tau
 * Kazakh: біреу
 * Korean: 누군가, 어떤 사람
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: یەکێک, کەسێک
 * Latgalian: kaids
 * Latin:, aliquid, , , quiddam, quaedam
 * Latvian:
 * Lenape:
 * Unami: awèn
 * Macedonian: некој
 * Malay: seseorang
 * Marathi: कोणी, कोणी तरी
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: кӧ, ала-кӧ, иктаж
 * Mirandese: alguien
 * Norman: tchitch'un
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: nokon, einkvan, eikor
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:, sum mann, hwā
 * Old Prussian: aīnunts
 * Pennsylvania German: ebber
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: wäa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: varekon
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuideigin, duin'-eigin,  feareigin,  tè-eigin
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: неко,  нетко
 * Roman:,  netko
 * Slovak:, dakto, voľakto
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ким-кӣ
 * Talysh: ای نفری
 * Telugu: ఎవరో
 * Thai: บางคน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ai đó
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: עמעצער

Noun

 * 1) A partially specified but unnamed person.
 * Do you need a gift for that special someone?
 * 1) * year unknown, T A Smallwood, Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com ISBN 9781445209425, page 2
 * It had never happened, it wasn&#39;t that there hadn&#39;t been any &#39;someones&#39;, there had actually been numerous &#39;someones&#39;, but not one that had gotten between him and his work.
 * 1)  An important person.
 * 1)  An important person.
 * 1)  An important person.