somebody

See also: some-body and some body

English

some +‎ body

somebody

Logically related to everybody and nobody. Becomes nobody via negation.

some unspecified person

Arabic: أَحَد‎ (ar) m (ʾaḥad); as a subject, the participle of the verb is also used, e.g. سَأَلَ سائِلٌ (saʾala sāʾilun, “somebody asked”, literally “an asker asked”)
Moroccan Arabic: شِواحد‎ (šiwaḥed)
Armenian: մեկը (hy) (mekə)
Asturian: daquién (ast)
Azerbaijani: kimsə (az)
Belarusian: хто́сьці (xtósʹci), хтось (xtosʹ), не́хта (njéxta)
Bulgarian: някой (njakoj)
Catalan: algú (ca)
Chamicuro: ana'shanaye
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有人 (zh) (yǒurén), 某人 (zh) (mǒurén)
Czech: někdo (cs) m
Dalmatian: čertjoin
Danish: nogen (da)
Dutch: iemand (nl)
Erzya: конаяк (konajak)
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 (だれか, dareka), 或る人 (あるひと, aru hito)

Kazakh: біреу (birew)
Korean: 누군가 (nugun-ga), 어떤 사람 (eotteon saram)
Ladin: zachei
Latin: aliquis (la) m or f, aliquid n
Macedonian: некој m (nekoj)
Mirandese: alguien
Norman: tchitch'un
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, (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)
Urdu: کوئی‎ (koī)
Vietnamese: ai đó
Walloon: ene sakî (wa), kéconk
Welsh: rhywun (cy) m
Yiddish: עמעצער‎ (emetser)

somebody (plural somebodies)

A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.

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