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• sŭmʹthĭng
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• /ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/
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• Australian, UK: [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ]
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• US: [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ]
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• US: [ˈsʌn̪θɪŋ]
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• New-Zealand: [ˈsɐm(p)θəŋ]
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• Ireland: /ˈsʊm.t̪ɪŋ/
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• /ˈsʊm.tɪn/ Dublin
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• /ˈsʊm.tɪŋ/ Dublin
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• rhymes with -ɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH1 M TH IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).

181 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Spanish: basurita — Translations
• Afrikaans: iets — unspecified object
• American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz — unspecified object
• Arabic: شَيْء (šayʔ) — unspecified object
• Arabic: حاجة (ḥāga) — unspecified object
• Arabic: شي (šay) — unspecified object
• Arabic: حاجة (ḥāja) — unspecified object
• Arabic: شي حاجة (ši ḥāja) — unspecified object
• Arabic: شي (šī) — unspecified object
• Arabic: شي إشي (šī) — unspecified object
• Armenian: ինչ-որ բան (inčʻ-or ban) — unspecified object
• Asturian: daqué — unspecified object
• Azerbaijani: nəsə — unspecified object
• Azerbaijani: nə isə — unspecified object
• Belarusian: што́сьці (štósʹci) — unspecified object
• Belarusian: штось (štosʹ) — unspecified object
• Belarusian: не́шта (njéšta) — unspecified object
• Bengali: কিছু একটা (kichu ekṭa) — unspecified object
• Bulgarian: не́що (néšto) — unspecified object
• Burmese: တစ်ခုခု (tachku.hku.) — unspecified object
• Burmese: တစ်စုံတစ်ခု (taccumtachku.) — unspecified object
• Catalan: alguna cosa — unspecified object
• Catalan: quelcom — unspecified object
• Catalan: qualque cosa — unspecified object
• Chamicuro: anaskajneye — unspecified object
• Cherokee: ᎦᎱᏍᏗ (gahusdi) — unspecified object
• Chinese Cantonese: 啲嘢 — unspecified object
• Chinese Cantonese: 某啲嘢 — unspecified object
• Chinese Mandarin: 某事 (mǒushì) — unspecified object
• Chinese Mandarin: 某物 (mǒuwù) — unspecified object
• Chinese Mandarin: 某東西 /某东西 (mǒudōngxi) — unspecified object
• Ngazidja Comorian: ndrongoo — unspecified object
• Cornish: neppyth — unspecified object
• Corsican: qualcosa — unspecified object
• Czech: něco — unspecified object
• Dalmatian: nosko — unspecified object
• Danish: noget — unspecified object
• Danish: et eller andet — unspecified object
• Dutch: iets — unspecified object
• Esperanto: io — unspecified object
• Estonian: midagi — unspecified object
• Finnish: jokin — unspecified object
• Finnish: jotakin — unspecified object
• French: quelque chose — unspecified object
• West-Frisian: wat — unspecified object
• West-Frisian: eat — unspecified object
• Galician: algo — unspecified object
• Galician: algunha cousa — unspecified object
• Georgian: რაღაც (raɣac) — unspecified object
• German: etwas — unspecified object
• German: öppis — unspecified object
• German: ebbes — unspecified object
• German: ebbis — unspecified object
• German: öbbis — unspecified object
• Bavarian German: eps — unspecified object
• East Central German: was — unspecified object
• East Central German: aawoss — unspecified object
• Greek: κάτι (káti) — unspecified object
• Ancient Greek: τι (ti) — unspecified object
• Mbya Guarani: mba'emo — unspecified object
• Hebrew: מַשֶּׁהוּ (máshehu) — unspecified object
• Hindi: कुछ (kuch) — unspecified object
• Hungarian: valami — unspecified object
• Icelandic: eitthvað — unspecified object
• Ido: ulo — unspecified object
• Ido: kelko — unspecified object
• Irish: rud éigin — unspecified object
• Italian: qualcosa — unspecified object
• Jamaican Creole: sopm — unspecified object
• Jamaican Creole: sitn — unspecified object
• Japanese: 何か (nanika) — unspecified object
• Khakas: пір ниме (pìr nime) — unspecified object
• Khmer: អី (ʼəy) — unspecified object
• Korean: 무언가 (mueon'ga) — unspecified object
• Korean: 뭔가 (mwon'ga) — unspecified object
• Korean: 무엇인가 (mueosin'ga) — unspecified object
• Ladin: zeche — unspecified object
• Ladino: alguna koza — unspecified object
• Ladino: algune koze (Monastir) — unspecified object
• Latgalian: nazkas — unspecified object
• Latgalian: kas naviņ — unspecified object
• Latgalian: kazyn kas — unspecified object
• Latin: aliquid — unspecified object
• Latin: quiddam — unspecified object
• Latvian: kaut kas — unspecified object
• Limburgish: get — unspecified object
• Macedonian: нешто (nešto) — unspecified object
• Malay: sesuatu — unspecified object
• Maltese: xi ħaġa — unspecified object
• Manx: nhee ennagh — unspecified object
• Eastern Mari: иктаж (iktaž) — unspecified object
• Mauritian Creole: kiksoz — unspecified object
• Miyako: ノーガラー (nōgarā) — unspecified object
• Norman: quique seit — unspecified object
• Norwegian Bokmål: noe — unspecified object
• Norwegian Nynorsk: noko — unspecified object
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eitkvart — unspecified object
• Old English: hwæthwugu — unspecified object
• Persian: چیزی (čizi) — unspecified object
• Polish: coś — unspecified object
• Portuguese: algo — unspecified object
• Portuguese: alguma coisa — unspecified object
• Quechua: ima — unspecified object
• Romanian: ceva — unspecified object
• Russian: что́-то (štó-to) — unspecified object
• Russian: не́что (néčto) — unspecified object
• Russian: кое-что́ (koje-štó) — unspecified object
• Northern Sami: juoga — unspecified object
• Scots: sumthin — unspecified object
• Scots: somethin — unspecified object
• Scottish Gaelic: rudeigin — unspecified object
• Serbo-Croatian: нешто — unspecified object
• Serbo-Croatian: nešto — unspecified object
• Slovak: niečo — unspecified object
• Slovene: nekaj — unspecified object
• Somali: wax — unspecified object
• Spanish: algo — unspecified object
• Spanish: alguna cosa — unspecified object
• Swedish: något — unspecified object
• Swedish: någonting — unspecified object
• Swedish: någon — unspecified object
• Tajik: ким-чӣ (kim-či) — unspecified object
• Talysh: ای چییی (i cii) — unspecified object
• Tamil: ஏதோ (ētō) — unspecified object
• Tày: cà răng — unspecified object
• Telugu: ఏదో (ēdō) — unspecified object
• Thai: บางสิ่ง (baang-sìng) — unspecified object
• Tibetan: ཅི་ཞིག (ci zhig) — unspecified object
• Tibetan: ག་རེ་ཡིན་ནའང (ga re yin na'ang) — unspecified object
• Tibetan: ཅི་དག (ci dag) — unspecified object
• Tok Pisin: wanpela samting — unspecified object
• Tswana: sengwe — unspecified object
• Turkish: bir şey — unspecified object
• Ukrainian: щось (ščosʹ) — unspecified object
• Ukrainian: де́що (déščo) — unspecified object
• Ukrainian: що-не́будь (ščo-nébudʹ) — unspecified object
• Ukrainian: чого́-не́будь (čohó-nébudʹ) — unspecified object
• Urdu: کچھ (kuch) — unspecified object
• Vietnamese: cái gì — unspecified object
• Vietnamese: gì — unspecified object
• Vietnamese: một cái gì đó — unspecified object
• Volapük: bos — unspecified object
• Welsh: rhywbeth — unspecified object
• Yiddish: עפּעס (epes) — unspecified object
• Yiddish: עטוואָס (etvos) — unspecified object
• Bulgarian: ма́лко (málko) — a small quantity
• Galician: algo — a small quantity
• German: klein — a small quantity
• Māori: ngaringari — a small quantity
• Welsh: tipyn — a small quantity
• Dutch: iets — talent that is hard to pin down
• Finnish: se jokin — talent that is hard to pin down
• French: quelque chose — talent that is hard to pin down
• German: Etwas — talent that is hard to pin down
• German: etwas — talent that is hard to pin down
• Greek: κάτι (káti) — talent that is hard to pin down
• Hebrew: מַשֶּׁהוּ (máshehu) — talent that is hard to pin down
• Latin: aliquid — talent that is hard to pin down
• Latin: quiddam — talent that is hard to pin down
• Macedonian: нешто (nešto) — talent that is hard to pin down
• Norwegian: noenting — talent that is hard to pin down
• Polish: coś — talent that is hard to pin down
• Portuguese: algo mais — talent that is hard to pin down
• Romanian: ceva — talent that is hard to pin down
• Serbo-Croatian: нешто — talent that is hard to pin down
• Serbo-Croatian: nešto — talent that is hard to pin down
• Swedish: något — talent that is hard to pin down
• Welsh: rhywbeth — talent that is hard to pin down
• Finnish: jotakin — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Hungarian: nem semmi — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Hungarian: nem akármi — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Japanese: 最高 (saikō) — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Latin: optimum — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Macedonian: нешто (nešto) — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Polish: coś — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Portuguese: algo mais — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Romanian: ceva — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Serbo-Croatian: нешто — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Serbo-Croatian: nešto — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Swedish: något — somebody who is superlative in some way
• Yiddish: נישט סתּם (nisht stam) — somebody who is superlative in some way