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 Translation for 'something' from English to Dutch
PRON   something | something | something's
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NOUN   a something | somethings
iets {pron}something
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iets doen aan ietsto do something about sth.
unverified
spreekw.
alsof er een engeltje over je tong piest
when something tastes really good
spreekw.
Men moet zaaien, wil men maaien.
You can't make something out of nothing.
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Usage Examples English
  • The park was promoted in the 1970s and 1980s on television commercials with the lyric "Something for mum and something for dad, something for grandma and old grandad... at Adventureland".
  • After numerous attempts to find more characteristics of performatives, and after having met with many difficulties, Austin makes what he calls a "fresh start", in which he considers "more generally the senses in which to say something may be to do something, or in saying something we do something".
  • Creator is something or someone who brings something into being.
  • Pre-theme song saying: Yang/Something, something, something... fart!
  • There's something buried underneath this town – something that could alter the course of human history.

  • It may describe either the instrumental “with (a utensil)”, “by means of (something)”, or the comitative “with (something, someone)”, “along with (something, someone)”.
  • A complement is something that completes something else.
  • Quid pro quo is a Latin term meaning "something for something".
  • For the second, Metz created an advertisement and a promotional campaign featuring their mascot, "the Judderman", in an attempt to appeal to contemporary youth by offering them something new, something unusual, and ultimately something dangerous and sinister.
  • Concomitance is the condition of accompanying or coexisting. A concomitant is something that accompanies something else.

  • This tense is especially useful for saying that something happened while something else was happening.
  • They wanted to do something much more inspirational and complex. Something new for people to grab onto.
  • Ojibwe "giniginige" "to mix "something animate" with "something inanimate"), from Proto-Algonquian "*kereken-", "mix (it) with something different by hand".
  • It is a compilation album released under the motto "Something new, something old, something borrowed, something cold".
  • All a smith needs is something to heat the metal, something to hold the hot metal with, something to hit the metal on, and something to hit the metal with.

  • Relevant is something directly related, connected or pertinent to a topic; it may also mean something that is current.
  • In the conventions of art history, the body is something to look at: nudes; figures in the landscape; portraiture. Dalziel + Scullion say something else – the human body is something to look with.
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