SOMETIMES    有時

HAPPENING NOT NEVER.
AT TIMESSOMETIMESFROM TIME TO TIME(EVERY) NOW AND THEN(EVERY) NOW AND AGAINAT TIMESEVERY SO OFTEN(EVERY) ONCE IN A WHILEON OCCASIONPERIODICALLYAT INTERVALSIRREGULARLYSPORADICALLYINFREQUENTLYINTERMITTENTLYON AND OFFOFF AND ON
Modern Chinese Criteria
有時 有的時候 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING
Antonym
Hypernym
  • HAPPEN　ARISE as AN EVENT. (anc: 10/0, child: 3)
  • ARISE　The EVENT that something BEGINS to EXIST. (anc: 9/0, child: 1)
  • EVENT　REALITY that ARISES in TIME. (anc: 8/0, child: 4)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 14.33

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    SOMETIMES

    nonnumquam simply means sometimes as opposed to never and always.

    interdum means "at times" as opposed to "often".

    aliquando "now and then" is opposed to once.

    • Words (7 items)

    或  huò OC: ɡʷɯɯɡ MC: ɦək 112 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adN{PRED}figurative, repeatedin some cases it is an N, in other cases...CH
    • npro.adV...或on occasion; sometimes; sometimes (...but at other times...); one moment, (and at another moment...)
    • npro.adVfigurative, repeatedin some cases ... in some other cases, in some instances ... in some other instances, in some contexts ... in some other contexts
    • npro.adVrepeatedon some occasions... on other occasions; sometimes..., at other times
    一  yī MC: 'jit OC: qliɡ 17 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • padV1.+V2repeatedsometimes (... at other times); at some point (...at another point), at some points, (...at other points)CH
    有  yǒu OC: ɢʷɯʔ MC: ɦɨu 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadS"there are cases where:" in some cases, sometimesCH
    • vadVsometimesin some cases; sometimes; occasionally
    或時  huò shí OC: ɡʷɯɯɡ ɡljɯ MC: ɦək dʑɨ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPadVat some time; at any time
    時  shí OC: ɡljɯ MC: dʑɨ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nadV時X,時Yat one time ... at another time
    載  zài OC: sklɯɯs MC: tsəi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • padV載...載　sometimes... at other times
    不時  bù shí MC: pjut dzyi OC: pɯʔ ɡljɯ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadVfrom time to time, sporadicallyLZ