sometime

sometime
adverb (at an unknown time in the future or the past: We'll go there sometime next week; They went sometime last month.) en alguna ocasión, en algún momento
sometime adv algún día
phone me sometime llámame algún día
sometime
tr['sʌmtaɪm]
adverb
1 algún día
■ sometime next week algún día de la semana que viene
■ phone me sometime llámame algún día
■ sometime or another tarde o temprano
adjective
1 formal use (former) antiguo,-a, ex-
sometime ['sʌm.taɪm] adv
: algún día, en algún momento
sometime next month: durante el mes que viene
sometime
adj.
• de otro tiempo adj.
adv.
• alguna vez adv.
• algún día adv.
• en algún tiempo adv.

I 'sʌmtaɪm
adverb (at unspecified time)

I'll get around to it sometime — ya lo haré en algún momento

we'll have to finish it sometime or another — algún día habrá que terminarlo, tarde or temprano habrá que terminarlo

sometime next week — un día de la semana que viene

let's do it sometime soon — hagámoslo pronto

we met sometime last summer — nos conocimos el verano pasado(, no recuerdo cuándo)


II
adjective (before n) (frml) ex, antiguo
['sʌmtaɪm]
1. ADV
1) (in future) algún día

you must come and see us sometime — tienes que venir a vernos algún día

I'll finish it sometime — lo voy a terminar un día de estos

sometime soon — un día de estos, antes de que pase mucho tiempo

sometime before tomorrow — antes de mañana

sometime next year — en algún momento el año que viene, el año que viene, no sé cuándo exactamente

sometime or other it will have to be done — tarde o temprano tendrá que hacerse

2) (in past)

sometime last month — (en algún momento) el mes pasado, el mes pasado, no sé cuándo exactamente

the victim died sometime during the last 24 hours — la víctima murió durante las últimas 24 horas, no se sabe el momento preciso

sometime last century — en el siglo pasado, durante el siglo pasado

2. ADJ
1) (=former) ex ..., antiguo
2) (US) (=occasional) intermitente
* * *

I ['sʌmtaɪm]
adverb (at unspecified time)

I'll get around to it sometime — ya lo haré en algún momento

we'll have to finish it sometime or another — algún día habrá que terminarlo, tarde or temprano habrá que terminarlo

sometime next week — un día de la semana que viene

let's do it sometime soon — hagámoslo pronto

we met sometime last summer — nos conocimos el verano pasado(, no recuerdo cuándo)


II
adjective (before n) (frml) ex, antiguo

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