some; a few; a couple of
eş: einige, wenige
zıt: viele, eine Unmenge
köken: From ein + paar. First attested in the 16th century.
aile: jemandem ein paar scheuern
of the · some; the feminine partitive article
🔊 Voudriez-vous de la confiture ?
🔊 J'ai mangé de la tarte
something, anything
zıt: nada, todo
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish algo, from Latin aliquod.
aile: algo así, algo así como, algo es algo, algo por ahí, dar algo, por algo
🔊 Algo imprevisto ocurrió.
🔊 Me parece algo de interés.
🔊 Eso es algo natural.
some, a few
eş: certo, nessuno, qualcheduno, qualcuno
köken: From Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from Classical Latin aliquem (“someone, something”) + ūnum (“one”). Cognate with French aucun, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.
diminutive of немно́го (nemnógo, “a little bit”)
eş: чуток
köken: немно́го (nemnógo) + -ечко (-ečko)
part · particle
çekim: çoğul خردوات
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwltk' /xwurdag/, “something small, particle”), from [script needed] (hwlt' /xwurd/, “small, little”). By surface analysis, خرد (xurd /xord) + ـه (-a /-e). Compare Old Armenian խորտակեմ (xortakem), an Iranian borrowing.
a bit, a little
köken: Morphologically bir (“one”) + az (“little, few”).
a little
köken: From бір (bır, “one”) + аз (az, “few, little”).
few, a little
köken: From Proto-Turkic *Āŕ. Compare Turkish az.
geringe hoeveelheid
eş: een pietsie
some, any
eş: determinado
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese algũu, from Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from Latin aliquis + ūnus. Compare Spanish alguno, French aucun, Italian alcuno.
accusative masculine singular of λίγος (lígos) · nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of λίγος (lígos)
eş: ολίγον
aile: κάθε λίγο και λιγάκι, λιγάκι, λίγο λίγο, λιγουλάκι
smallness, triviality (usually in the form of 약간의)
köken: Sino-Korean word from 若干, from 若 (“seeming”) + 干 (“how much”)
🔊 다리가 아직도 아픈가요? 지금은 아주 약간이요.
definite singular of aning
more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few
çekim: çoğul kilki · tamlayan kilki
eş: nieco, mało, trochę, niedużo, niewiele, co nieco
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷosder. Proto-Slavic *ko Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *lei Proto-Slavic *li Proto-Slavic *koli Proto-Slavic *-ko Proto-Slavic *koliko Old Polish kilko Polish kilka Inherited from Old Polish kilko.
aile: kilkadziesiąt, kilkanaście, kilkaset, kilkoro
less (in lower degree; to smaller extent) · little (not much)
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian کم (kam, “little, few”). Compare Bengali কম (kom), Punjabi ਕਮ (kam).
🔊 आज बहुत कम बरसात हुई है।
a little, bit, tad, slightly
köken: A genitive or instructive singular form of *hiema, which could be from Proto-Finnic *hëëma-, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *sēmô through earlier *šeema(n) (in which case the word is a doublet of siemen), or alternatively derived from hieta through irregular suffix substitution. However, neither of these can be considered certain.
🔊 Saisinko hieman lisää?
🔊 Tänään meillä on tarjolla jotain hieman erikoisempaa.
several, a few
köken: From ně- + kolik (“how many”).
🔊 několik knih
🔊 v několika knihách
some
köken: Inherited from Latin nesciō (“to don't know”) quid (“what”). Compare Aromanian nishti.
🔊 ei sunt niște bărbați
🔊 ai niște mere?
mildly, faintly, slightly, moderately
köken: From enyhe (“mild”) + -n (“-ly”, deadjectival adverb-forming suffix).
some, any · someone, something, anyone, anything
köken: Etymology tree Latin ali- Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Italic *kʷoi Latin quei Latin quī Latin aliquī From ali- (“some-”) + quī (“which”).
aile: *alicūnus
a little, slightly
köken: From Old Norse lítt, a short form of lítit, the neuter of the adjective lítill (“little”) (Danish liden, lille).