Phrase guide

someone else

pron · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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pron

Meaning 1

Some other person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I grabbed somebody else's coat.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: another, somebody else

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: ня́кой друг (njákoj drug) — some other person
  • Bulgarian: друг (drug) — some other person
  • Chinese Mandarin: 另外一個人 /另外一个人 (lìngwài yī gè rén) — some other person
  • Chinese Mandarin: 別的人 /别的人 (biéde rén) — some other person
  • Ngazidja Comorian: mndru mndrwadjina — some other person
  • Czech: někdo jiný — some other person
  • Dutch: iemand anders — some other person
  • Esperanto: aliulo — some other person
  • Esperanto: iu alia — some other person
  • Finnish: joku muu — some other person
  • French: quelqu'un d'autre — some other person
  • German: jemand anders — some other person
  • German: jemand anderes — some other person
  • Greek: κάποιος άλλος (kápoios állos) — some other person
  • Greek: άλλος (állos) — some other person
  • Hungarian: valaki más — some other person
  • Hungarian: másvalaki — some other person
  • Icelandic: einhver annar — some other person
  • Icelandic: einhver önnur (einhvað annað n/eitthvert annað n) — some other person
  • Italian: qualcun altro — some other person
  • Khmer: នរណាម្នាក់ផ្សេងទៀត (nôr namnéakphséng tiĕt) — some other person
  • Polish: ktoś inny — some other person
  • Romanian: altcineva — some other person
  • Russian: кто-то друго́й (kto-to drugój) — some other person
  • Slovak: niekto iný — some other person
  • Swedish: någon annan — some other person
  • Vietnamese: ai khác — some other person