anyone
English
Etymology
From Middle English eny on, ony one, equivalent to any + one.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛ.niˌwʌn/, /ˈæ.niˌwʌn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ni.wʌn/
Pronoun
anyone
- Any person; anybody.
Almost anyone can change a light bulb.
1891, George Bernard Shaw, Quintessence of Ibsenism:The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 8, in Death on the Centre Court:“[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
Synonyms
Translations
anybody
- Albanian: cilido (sq), kushdo (sq)
- Arabic:
- Moroccan Arabic: أي واحد (ʔayy wāḥed), أي حد (ʔayy ḥadd)
- Armenian: ամեն մեկը (amen mekə), որևէ մեկը (orewē mekə)
- Basque: edonor
- Belarusian: хто-не́будзь (xto-njébudzʹ), (in negative sentences) ніхто́ (nixtó), абы-хто́ (aby-xtó)
- Bulgarian: все́ки (vséki), ня́кой (njákoj), ко́йто и да е (kójto i da e)
- Catalan: qualsevol (ca), tothom (ca), (questions) algú (ca), (negative) ningú (ca)
- Chamicuro: ana'shanaye
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 何人 (zh) (hérén)
- Comorian:
- Maore Comorian: (in negative sentences) ata mutru
- Ngazidja Comorian: mndru class 1, mdzima class 1 (in negative sentences)
- Czech: kdokoliv (cs)
- Danish: nogen (da), hvemsomhelst
- Dutch: iemand (nl), wie dan ook, eenieder (nl)
- Esperanto: iu (eo), iu ajn
- Estonian: keegi (et), igaüks (et)
- Finnish: joku (fi), kuka tahansa (affirmative), ketään (interrogative)
- French: quelqu'un (fr) m, quelqu'une (fr) f, n'importe qui (fr), personne (fr)
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: immen
- Georgian: ვინმე (vinme), ნებისმიერი (nebismieri), ვიღაც (viɣac)
- German: jemand (de), wer (de) (colloquial), irgendjemand (de), irgendwer (de)
- Hebrew: אף אחד (áf ekhád) (negative), מישהו (mishehú) (positive)
- Hungarian: bárki (hu), akárki (hu)
- Icelandic: einhver (is)
- Ido: irgu (io)
- Irish: aon duine
- Italian: chiunque (it)
- Japanese: 誰も (ja) (だれも, dare mo) (used with affirmative verbs) 誰でも (ja) (だれでも, dare de mo)
- Jeju: 아모 (amo)
- Kapampangan: ninuman, ninumo
- Korean: 아무 (ko) (amu)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: کەس (kes), ھەرچیکەس (herçîkes), ھەرکەس (herkes)
- Latin: quisquam (la), ūllus (la) (in negative sentences)
- Malay:
- Jawi: سياڤا٢, سسياڤا
- Rumi: siapa-siapa, sesiapa (ms)
- Marathi: कोणीही (koṇīhī)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кӧ (kö)
- Norwegian: noen (no), enhver (no), hvem som helst
- Old English: ǣniġ mann, man (ang), hwā
- Persian: کسی (fa) (kasi)
- Polish: ktokolwiek (pl), kto bądź, byle kto (pl)
- Portuguese: alguém (pt) m, alguma (pt) f, qualquer (pt) m or f, quaisquer (pt) m pl or f pl, qualquer um
- Romanian: oricine (ro)
- Russian: вся́кий (ru) m (vsjákij), любо́й (ru) (ljubój), кто уго́дно (kto ugódno), кто бы то ни́ было (kto by to ní bylo), никто́ (ru) (niktó) (in negative sentences), кто́-нибу́дь (ru) (któ-nibúdʹ) (interrogative), кто́-либо (ru) (któ-libo), кто уго́дно (kto ugódno)
- Scottish Gaelic: duine sam bith
- Serbo-Croatian: bilotko, itko, tkogod
- Slovene: kdorkoli (sl)
- Spanish: cualquiera (es), quien (es), alguien (es), cada hijo de vecino m (colloquial), cualquier hijo de vecino m (colloquial)
- Swedish: någon (sv), vem som helst (sv), (vem som)
- Tagalog: sinuman, balana
- Telugu: ఎవరైనా (te) (evarainā)
- Ukrainian: хто-не́будь (uk) (xto-nébudʹ), (in negative sentences) ніхто́ (uk) (nixtó), будь-хто (uk) (budʹ-xto), будь-яки́й (uk) (budʹ-jakýj)
- Vietnamese: ai (vi), người ta (vi)
- Yoruba: ẹnikẹ́ni
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