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some [sʌm]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. pronoun3. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective• some tea/ice cream/water du thé/de la glace/de l'eau• would you like some more meat? voulez-vous encore un peu de viande ?b. ( = a certain number of) des━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► de is sometimes used before an adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. ( = a certain) if you are worried about some aspect of this proposal... si un aspect quelconque de cette proposition vous préoccupe...• in some ways, he's right par certains côtés, il a raison• some people say that... il y a des gens qui disent que...f. ( = a considerable amount of) it took some courage to do that! il a fallu du courage pour faire ça !g. ( = a limited) this will give you some idea of... cela vous donnera une petite idée de...• that's some consolation! c'est quand même une consolation !• surely there's some hope she will recover? il y a tout de même quelque espoir qu'elle guérisse ?2. pronouna. ( = as opposed to others) certain(e)s m(f)pl• some cheered, others shouted abuse certains applaudissaient, d'autres criaient des injures━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the use of d'entre with personal pronouns.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = not all) quelques-un(e)s m(f)pl• I don't want them all, but I'd like some je ne les veux pas tous mais j'en voudrais quelques-uns━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Even if not expressed, of them must be translated in French by en.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━c. ( = a certain amount or number when object of the verb) en• have some! prenez-en !• do you need stamps? -- it's okay, I've got some est-ce que tu as besoin de timbres ? -- non, ça va, j'en aid. ( = a part) une partie► ... and then some (inf)3. adverba. ( = about) environb. ( = a bit) (inf)* * *Note: When some is used as a quantifier to mean an unspecified amount of something, it is translated by du, de l' before vowel or mute h, de la or des according to the gender and number of the noun that follows: I'd like some bread = je voudrais du pain; have some water = prenez de l'eau; we've bought some beer = nous avons acheté de la bière; they've bought some peaches = ils ont acheté des pêchesBut note that where some is followed by an adjective preceding a plural noun, de alone is used in all cases: some pretty dresses = de jolies robesWhen some is used as a pronoun it is translated by en which is placed before the verb in French: would you like some? = est-ce que vous en voulez?; I've got some = j'en ai[sʌm] 1.determiner, quantifier2) (certain: in contrast to others) certainsin some ways, I agree — d'une certaine façon, je suis d'accord
4) (a little, a slight)the candidate needs to have some knowledge of computers — le candidat doit avoir certaines or un minimum de connaissances en informatique
you must have some idea where the house is — tu dois avoir une idée de l'endroit où la maison se trouve
this money will go some way towards compensating her for her injuries — cet argent compensera un peu ses blessures
5) péj (an unspecified, unknown)a car of some sort —
6) (colloq) ( a remarkable)that's some woman ou man! — c'est quelqu'un!
7) (colloq) ( not much)some help you are! — iron c'est ça que tu appelles aider!
2.‘I'd like the work to be finished by Monday’ - ‘some hope!’ — ‘j'aimerais que le travail soit fini avant lundi’ - ‘tu rêves (colloq)!’
2) (certain ones: in contrast to others)3.1) ( approximately) environsome £50 — autour de 50 livres sterling
2) (colloq) US ( a lot) un peufrom here to the town center in 5 minutes, that's going some — (colloq) aller d'ici au centre ville en 5 minutes, il faut le faire
••some people! — ah vraiment, il y a des gens!
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