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somewhere

 
 
/ˈsʌmweər/ adverb

Translation

used to refer to a place when you do not know exactly where it is or when it is not important exactly where it is
bir yere, bir yerde, bir yere
They had difficulties finding somewhere to live. He comes from somewhere near London. Can you think of somewhere else (= a different place) we could go?12381894
somewhere around/between, etc approximately
tahminen buralarda bir yerde; yaklaşık bu arada bir yerde
He earns somewhere around £50,000 a year.1894
get somewhere to achieve something or to make progress
bir yere varmak; başarmak, ilerleme kaydetmek
Right, that's the printer working. Now we're getting somewhere!1848
(Definition of somewhere adverb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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