Translation
some kind of
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Examples
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I feel some kind of fear.
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Is there any hope?
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He answered with some short word or other.
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Some sort of man was standing by the door.
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We must find some other place.
is the correlative grid again: the i- row means some, and the -a column means kind of. So some thing, someone, sometime, somewhere, for some reason, some amount. Because -a words are adjectives, agrees: stacks the accusative onto all three. Compare (what kind of) and (that kind of) across the same column.
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ia: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 9: ia, tra, mondo and 6 more words.