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sommer

sommer interjection: just because; answer to questions (especially "why" questions) that you do not want to answer or don't have a specific answer for. Also the obsolete form of summer.

Interjection

  1. (South Africa) just because; answer to questions (especially "why" questions) that you do not want to answer or don't have a specific answer for.
    • Why do I have to go to school?
      Sommer.

Proper noun capitalized: Sommer

Sommer (plural Sommers)

  1. A surname from German.

Also used as

sommer is also the obsolete form of summer.

Forms of sommer

Noun
pluralsommers
Proper noun
pluralSommers

Origin of sommer

From Afrikaans sommer.

* As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Norwegian surname, from the noun sommer (“summer”). * Also as a German surname, from Middle Low German somere (“pack animal”), probably derived from Latin sagma (“pack saddle”). * As an English, Scottish, and German surname, variant of Summer.

Questions about sommer

What does sommer mean?
Sommer means just because; answer to questions (especially "why" questions) that you do not want to answer or don't have a specific answer for.
What part of speech is sommer?
Sommer can be an interjection or a proper noun.

Words near sommer in the dictionary

  1. sommelieres
  2. sommeliering
  3. sommeliers
  4. sommelière
  5. sommelières
  6. sommer
  7. Sommerfeld
  8. Sommerfeld factor
  9. Sommerfeld factors
  10. Sommerfeld parameter
  11. Sommerfeld parameters

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