alguien

== Mirandese == === Etymology === From Latin aliquem, accusative of aliquis. Compare Portuguese alguém and Spanish alguien. === Pronoun === alguien somebody; someone ==== Antonyms ==== nadie == Spanish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Spanish alguien and the variations algui (c. 1260) and alguién (c. 16th c., but probably earlier). First attested in the form alguien in a 1247 document from San Esteban de Nogales. Two main etymologies have been suggested: As a variant of alguno under the influence of, or conflated with, quien; probably originally being pronounced alguién (cf. Portuguese alguém, Galician alguén) with the stress seemingly shifting to alguien under the influence of algo, nada and nadie. This is the most accepted proposal. From Latin aliquem; however, it has been argued that the expected form would have been *algue. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈalɡjen/ [ˈal.ɣ̞jẽn] Rhymes: -alɡjen Syllabification: al‧guien === Pronoun === alguien someone, somebody anyone, anybody ==== Antonyms ==== nadie === References === === Further reading === “alguien”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025