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
Antonym
Hypernym
  • HAPPENARISE as AN EVENT.
    • ARISEThe EVENT that something BEGINS to EXIST.
      • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME.
        • REALITYEXIST and NOT ONLY BE IMAGINED....
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

  • 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

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.adVon 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: qliɡCH 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 ɡljɯLZ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPadVfrom time to time, sporadicallyLZ

Existing SW for

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