Standard Lemma guide

somebody's

contraction · pron · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • CMU ARPABET: S AH1 M B AA2 D IY0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

contraction

Meaning 1

Contraction of somebody + is.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

contraction

Meaning 2

Contraction of somebody + has.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

pron

Meaning 3

Possessive case of somebody. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: someone's

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From somebody + -'s.

Across languages

Translations

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: něčí — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Czech: čísi — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Esperanto: ies — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Finnish: jonkun — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Hungarian: valaki(nek a/az) ...-a/-e/-ja/-je — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Hungarian: valakié — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Polish: czyjś — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Russian: че́й-то (čéj-to) — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Serbo-Croatian: нечији — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Serbo-Croatian: nečiji — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Slovak: čísi — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Slovak: niečí — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Slovak: dačí — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Slovak: voľačí — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
  • Ukrainian: чийсь (čyjsʹ) — belonging to somebody (possessive form of ''somebody'')
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