now and then, occasionally
eş: bisweilen, dann und wann, gelegentlich, hin und wieder, manchmal, mitunter
köken: Literally, “off and to”. Compare Dutch af en toe.
from time to time, once in a while
eş: de moment en moment, de temps à autre
sometimes; occasionally; at times
eş: ocasionalmente, a la de veces, a las de veces, a las veces, de vez en cuando, en ocasiones
köken: Vulgar Latin ad vicēs (“at times”). Compare Italian a volte for a similar construction.
🔊 A veces es necesario hacer cosas que no te gustan.
🔊 Excepto que en húngaro se declinan y se conjugan los sustantivos, a veces juntos.
sometimes, at times
köken: Compare Spanish a veces for a similar construction.
sometimes
köken: Adverbial accusative of أَحْيَان (ʔaḥyān, “times”).
sometimes, occasionally
köken: From Classical Persian گاه (gāh, “time”) + ـی (-ē, indefinite/bare definite marker).
🔊 نیزه گردانی است ای نیزه که تو / راست میگردی گهی گاهی دو تو
🔊 گاهی قطرهای در کام تشنه لبان وادی نامرادی میچکد.
🔊 گاهی خنده گاهی گریه آخه این چه کاریه سرم از غم تو گریبون این چه روزگاریه
now and then
köken: Univerbation of ara (“while”) + bir (“one”).
sometimes
köken: кей (kei) + -де (-de).
sometimes, occasionally
köken: Borrowed from Arabic بَعْضًا (baʕḍan), adverbial accusative of بَعْض (baʕḍ). By surface analysis, baʼzi + -an. Compare Azerbaijani bəzən and Turkish bazen.
now and then, occasionally
eş: af en toe, bij tijd en wijle, soms, somtijds, van tijd tot tijd
köken: Compare West Frisian no en dan, English now and then.
sometimes (on certain occasions, but not always) · perhaps, maybe (indicates possibility or doubt)
eş: de vez em quando, ocasionalmente, eventualmente, infrequentemente
μερικές φορές, καμιά φορά, σε μερικές περιπτώσεις
as it is; remaining in a certain state; while still · Expressing the intention of explaining a reason; because
köken: From 儘(まま) (mama, “the same, unchanged state”, noun).
🔊 立ったまま寝てしまう
🔊 したいことが見つけられないから 急いだ振り 俯くまま
🔊 是非一度お目にかかりたきまま、御都合の程お聞かせ願えれば幸甚に存じます。
sometimes, occasionally
eş: 가끔, 종종
now and then, every so often, from time to time, occasionally
köken: då (“then”) + och (“and”) + då (“then”)
every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, sometimes · sometimes (in one or another case against the background of many others)
eş: niekiedy, gw. (Śląsk Cieszyński) ponikiedy
köken: Instrumental plural of czas. Compare Ukrainian часа́ми (časámy).
🔊 W zależności od światła jej oczy są czasami niebieskie, czasami zielone.
sometimes, once in a while · ever
köken: कब (kab) + ही (hī).
aile: कभी कभी, कभी नहीं, कभी भी, कभी-न-कभी
🔊 कभी कभी
🔊 कभी नहीं
once in a while, from time to time, at times, occasionally, periodically, intermittently
köken: ajoi- + -ttain (distributive plural)
aile: ajoittainen
sometimes
eş: druhdy, kdys, kdysi, dříve, onehdy, tehdy
zıt: nikdy
köken: From ně- + kdy (“when”).
sometimes, at times, occasionally, now and then, now and again
köken: From câte + o + dată.
every now and then, every once in a while, sometimes (very seldom)
köken: hé (Old Hungarian variant of hő (“heat”)) + -be (“in”, folksy variant of -ben) + hó (“snow”) + -ba (“in”, folksy variant of -ban). Its original meaning was “in heat and in snow”, that is “always”. Later, the meaning of its parts had faded because of its similarity to reduplications such as gizgaz (“weed”) and mendemonda (“hearsay”); this may be how its current meaning changed to “sometimes”.
sometimes, at times, every so often, occasionally.
köken: From לְ־ (l', “to, for”) + פְּעָמִים (p'amím, “times”).
sometimes · occasionally
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin dum Latin interdum From inter + dum.