EN: We were someone else

[Aterian]

Bonjour,

"We were someone else."

Est-ce que someone ici peut avoir un seul pluriel ?
Comment mettre someone au pluriel si possible en gardant someone...

Merci.

 

[Maître Capello]

We were other/different people.

En français, cela n'aurait d'ailleurs pas grand sens de dire Nous étions quelqu'un d'autre si nous se réfère bien à plusieurs personnes distinctes.

 

[olivier68]

En français : nous étions des personnes différentes
Attention à la place de l'adjectif ;-)

 

[moustic]

Did you see this as a stand-alone sentence? If so, it sounds a bit odd.

I can imagine it forming part of a longer sentence though, for example: When we were young, we were always wishing we were someone else.

 

[OLN]

What is your source, Aterian?
There are several occurrences on G* Books here. Could it mean 'we were all someone else', ie 'each of us was someone else'?

 

[Aterian]

C'était dans un film, je ne me souviens plus lequel malheureusement, le narrateur parlait pour son couple :

"We were someone else."

Merci pour les réponses précédentes, au passage.

 

[OLN]

Était-ce un couple fusionnel ? Certains disent "we are pregnant" quand la femme est enceinte.

 

[franklin.researcher]

Do you have more of a context for this sentence? maybe there might be nuances to this context