How do you pronounce such?

The recorded pronunciation is /sʌt͡ʃ/.

Where does such come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

such

/sʌt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.84 in modern English

Syllables: such
IPA: /sʌt͡ʃ/

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Meaning

det

Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.

det

Any.

det

Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.

det

Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.

det

A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

Obsolete

pron

A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.

noun

Something being indicated that is similar to something else.

name

A surname.

Example Sentences

"I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before."
"Really? Unfortunately, my mind refuses to bring any such memory forward."
"After "reiterate" do not use "(yet) again" and other such expressions."
"Why would you do such a thing?"
"I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding."
"She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher."

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: such, swelċ, *swalīk, *swalīkaz

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

sich (alternative) sech (alternative) soch (alternative) soche (alternative) suches (plural) Suchs (plural)

Derived Forms

nonesuch suchlike suchly suchness suchwise

Phrases

and such as such many such cases no such luck no such thing some such such-and-such such and such

Synonyms

what

Rhymes With

much touch dutch clutch hutch crutch buch kutch mutch bruch nonesuch ruch