some

About 259.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. pronoun A certain number (multiple but not all).

   Some enjoy spicy food, others prefer it milder.

2. pronoun An indefinite quantity.

   Can I have some of them?

3. pronoun An indefinite amount; a part. Used mostly with abstract and nonliving objects.

   Please give me some of the cake.

4. pronoun Someone, a certain person.
5. determiner A nonzero, unspecified proportion of (a bounded set of countable things): at least two.

   Some people like camping.

6. determiner A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).

   Would you like some grapes?

7. determiner An unspecified amount of (something uncountable).

   Would you like some water?

8. determiner A certain, an unspecified or unknown.

   I've just met some guy who said he knew you.

Similar words

approximately more or less close to just about about whatsoever any whatever around several

Often followed by

of time other cases people extent kind years sort way