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# sometime

«sometime» in Mova's school dictionary: **not said exactly: come and visit sometime** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb, adjective (sometime)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sometime means at a time that is not said exactly: come and visit sometime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#m1)

2) As an adjective, sometime means former, in the past: his sometime teacher (rare). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths a word of the story only; carries no number. Everyday: sometime soon, sometime next week, sometime in the morning.

### examples

- She will visit sometime next week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x1)
- Sometime in the morning he read 20 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x2)
- They plan to finish sometime soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x3)
- Sometime later 4 more birds came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x4)
- Let's play together sometime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x5)
- The parcel will arrive sometime today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x6)
- Sometime in spring the swallows come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/#x7)

### note

Carries no number. Trap: «sometime» (one unknown time) is not the same as «sometimes» (now and then, on some occasions) or «some time» (a long time: I waited for some time).

### In the corpora

- [Wanna play online sometime?» With their dads' OK they play every week.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sometime» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sometime/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.