Translation
someone; something
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Examples
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Someone is coming.
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Tell me something.
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I saw someone in the street.
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Some good will come of this.
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Does anyone want water?
is with ali- bolted on the front, and only the back half declines: , , genitive , dative , accusative and , ablative and aliqua. Used as an adjective rather than a pronoun, the masculine is aliqui and the neuter aliquod.
It means "someone or other", a person or thing that exists but is not being identified. The neuter takes a partitive genitive rather than an adjective agreeing with it, so "something good" is . The rule every Latin class chants is "after , , and the ali- falls away": where you expect after one of those words you get bare , still meaning "anyone".
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 7: aliquis, statim, praeter and 7 more words.