someday

English

Alternative forms

• some day

Etymology

Univerbation of some +‎ day.

Adverb

someday (not comparable)

1. Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future.

   Synonyms: one day; see also Thesaurus:one day

   • 1979, Talking Heads (lyrics and music), “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music:

     Transmit the message to the receiver / Hope for an answer someday

Translations

sometime; at some time in the future

• Arabic: يَوْمًا مَا (yawman mā)
• Basque: egunen batean
• Belarusian: калі́-не́будзь (kalí-njébudzʹ)
• Bengali: একদিন (bn) (ekodin)
• Bulgarian: някой ден (njakoj den)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 有日 (jau⁵ jat⁶)

  Mandarin: 日後／日后 (zh) (rìhòu), 有一天 (zh) (yǒuyītiān)

• Danish: en dag
• Dutch: op een dag, ooit (nl), eens (nl)
• Finnish: jonain päivänä, joskus (fi)
• French: un jour (fr)
• Georgian: ოდესმე (odesme)
• German: eines Tages (de), irgendwann (de)
• Japanese: いつか (ja) (itsuka)
• Korean: 언젠가 (ko) (eonjen'ga)
• Latin: aliquando (la)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: en dag, en eller annen dag

• Nyunga: benang benang
• Old English: sume dæġe
• Polish: któregoś dnia, kiedyś (pl)
• Portuguese: um dia
• Romanian: într-o zi
• Russian: когда́-нибу́дь (ru) (kogdá-nibúdʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: lath'-eigin, latha de na làithean
• Spanish: algún día (es)
• Swedish: någon gång
• Ukrainian: коли́-не́будь (kolý-nébudʹ)
• Welsh: undydd

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