alguém
Portuguese, pronoun/awˈɡẽj̃/
alguém is spelled A-L-G-U-É-M (6 letters) and appears 589 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 153rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alguém is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “somebody; someone (some person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa não identificada”.
What does alguém mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
somebody; someone (some person)
noun
- 1
masculinerarea person
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. pessoa não identificada
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alguém
- alguéns plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alguém?
- Brazil /awˈɡẽj̃/
- Brazil [aʊ̯ˈɡẽɪ̯̃]
- Portugal /alˈɡɐ̃j̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alguém
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alguém in Portuguese?
alguém appears 589 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).