how to pronounce somebody

/ˈsʌmˌbɑːdiː/

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the above transcription of somebody is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

somebody is pronounced in three syllables

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ɑː

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iː

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An example use of somebody in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… making a connection with somebody in a …”

meaning of somebody

Somebody is a person or thing that somebody else is talking about.

somebody frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word somebody occurs in english on average 32.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics somebody can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that somebody can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;