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"Everybody" is a pronoun which is often translated as "todo el mundo", and "somebody" is a pronoun which is often translated as "alguien". Learn more about the difference between "everybody" and "somebody" below.
everybody(
eh
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vri
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buh
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di
)A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun (e.g., she).
1. (all people)
a. todo el mundo
By the time I got there, everybody was leaving.Para cuando yo llegué, todo el mundo se iba.
c. todas (feminine)
Laila asked her girlfriends and everybody agreed to take part in the race.Laila preguntó a sus amigas y todas estaban de acuerdo en participar en la carrera.
somebody(
suhm
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buh
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di
)A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun (e.g., she).
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
a. el personaje (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
He is a real somebody in the field of research.Es todo un personaje en el campo de la investigación.
