English
Etymology
From some + body.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌmbədɪ/, /ˈsʌmbɒdɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsʌmbʌdi/, /ˈsʌmbədi/, /ˈsʌmbɑdi/
Pronoun
somebody
- Some unspecified person.
Somebody has to clean this mess up.
Usage notes
Logically related to everybody and nobody. Becomes nobody via negation.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
some unspecified person
- Arabic: أَحَد (ar) m (ʔaḥad); as a subject, the participle of the verb is also used, e.g. سَأَلَ سائِلٌ (saʔala sāʔilun, “somebody asked”, literally “an asker asked”)
- Moroccan Arabic: شي حد (ši ḥadd), شي واحد (ši wāḥed)
- Armenian: մեկը (hy) (mekə)
- Asturian: daquién (ast)
- Azerbaijani: kimsə (az)
- Belarusian: хто́сьці (xtósʹci), хтось (xtosʹ), не́хта (njéxta)
- Bulgarian: някой (njakoj)
- Burmese: တစ်ယောက်ယောက် (tacyauk-yauk), တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် (my) (taccumtacyauk)
- Catalan: algú (ca)
- Chamicuro: ana'shanaye
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有人 (zh) (yǒurén), 某人 (zh) (mǒurén)
- Cornish: nebonan
- Czech: někdo (cs) m
- Dalmatian: čertjoin
- Danish: nogen (da)
- Dutch: iemand (nl)
- Erzya: конаяк (konajak)
- Esperanto: iu (eo)
- Faroese: onkur
- Finnish: joku (fi)
- French: quelqu'un (fr)
- Galician: alguén (gl)
- Georgian: ვიღაც (viɣac), ვინმე (vinme)
- German: jemand (de); einer (de); (colloquial) wer (de)
- Greek: κάποιος (el) (kápoios)
- Ancient: τις (tis)
- Hebrew: מִישֶׁהוּ (míshehu)
- Hindi: कोई (hi) (koī)
- Hungarian: valaki (hu)
- Icelandic: einhver (is) m
- Interlingua: alicuno, alcuno
- Italian: qualcuno (it)
- Japanese: 誰か (ja) (だれか, dareka), 或る人 (あるひと, aru hito)
- Kapampangan: ninuman, ninuka, ninuya, ninula, ating tau
- Kazakh: біреу (bıreu)
- Korean: 누군가 (nugun'ga), 어떤 사람 (eotteon saram)
- Ladin: zachei
- Latin: aliquis (la) m or f, aliquid n
- Latvian: kāds (lv)
- Lithuanian: kažkas
- Macedonian: некој m (nekoj)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кӧ (kö), ала-кӧ (ala-kö), иктаж (iktaž)
- Mirandese: alguien
- Norman: tchitch'un
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: noen (no)
- Nynorsk: einkvan m, eikor f, nokon
- Old English: sum mann, sum
- Old Prussian: aīnunts
- Persian: کسی (fa) (kasi)
- Polish: ktoś (pl) m
- Portuguese: alguém (pt)
- Romanian: cineva (ro)
- Russian: кто́-то (ru) (któ-to), кто-нибу́дь (ru) (kto-nibúdʹ), не́кто (ru) (nékto), кто-ли́бо (ru) (kto-líbo), кое-кто́ (ru) (koje-któ)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuideigin (gd), (male) duin'-eigin, (male) feareigin, (female) tè-eigin
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) неко m, (Croatian) нетко m
- Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) neko (sh) m, (Croatian) netko m
- Slovak: niekto (sk) m, dakto m, voľakto, ktosi
- Slovene: nekdó (sl)
- Spanish: alguien (es)
- Swedish: någon (sv)
- Thai: บางคน (baang-kon)
- Turkish: kimse (tr)
- Ukrainian: хтось (uk) (xtosʹ), хто-не́будь (uk) (xto-nébudʹ), де́хто (uk) (déxto)
- Urdu: کوئی (koī)
- Vietnamese: ai đó
- Walloon: ene sakî (wa), kéconk (wa)
- Welsh: rhywun (cy) m
- Yiddish: עמעצער (emetser)
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Noun
somebody (plural somebodies or somebodys)
- Any person.
1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and the Fuel Crisis: Hearings..., page 88:So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.
- A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.