Translation
somewhere, anywhere
Word origin
Not a borrowing but a cell of Zamenhof's correlative table: the indefinite i- beginning joined to the -e ending for place, so 'some' plus 'where'.
- Origin
- Esperanto correlative
- Root
- i- + -e
Examples
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I lost my money somewhere in the city.
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Have you seen him anywhere?
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Somewhere in the world there is a place for us.
is the place cell of the i- row in the correlative table: the indefinite "somewhere", and in questions and negatives "anywhere". Its table neighbours are kie where, tie there, ĉie everywhere, and nowhere; swap the ending instead and you get io something and iam sometime. Like the rest of the -e place words it takes -n for motion towards: means I will go somewhere or other.
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