Qualche
INDEFINITE ADJECTIVE
Meaning and English translation 🔖
1. Some, A few
🇬🇧 Indicates an indefinite but generally small quantity of people or things.
🇮🇹 Indica una quantità indefinita ma generalmente piccola di persone o cose.
2. Any, Some
🇬🇧 Used in questions or negative sentences to indicate an indeterminate quantity.
🇮🇹 Usato in frasi interrogative o negative per indicare una quantità indeterminata.
Example sentences 💬
Ho comprato qualche libro per le vacanze.
I bought some books for the holidays.
Hai qualche idea su dove potremmo andare stasera?
Do you have any ideas about where we could go tonight?
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Idioms with qualche 🇮🇹
Qualche volta
→ Sometimes
Qualche volta vado al cinema da sola.
Sometimes I go to the cinema alone.
Da qualche parte
→ Somewhere
Ho messo le chiavi da qualche parte, ma non le trovo.
I put the keys somewhere, but I can't find them.
In qualche modo
→ Somehow
In qualche modo, riusciremo a risolvere questo problema.
Somehow, we'll manage to solve this problem.
Tra qualche giorno/settimana/mese/anno/etc.
→ In a few days/weeks/months/years/etc.
Partirò per le vacanze tra qualche giorno.
I'll leave for vacation in a few days.
Where does the word qualche come from? 🔎
Qualche comes from the composition of "quale" [which] and "che" [that], originally used separately to mean qualunque [whichever].
