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どこか details

somewhere — どこ plus か, a place the speaker cannot or need not name + go

dokokani iku

somewhere — どこ plus か, a place the speaker cannot or need not name

meaning: go somewhere

週末しゅうまつどこかに出かけるでかけるつもりです。

shuumatsu wa dokokani dekakeru tsumori desu.

I'm planning to go out somewhere this weekend. neutral

今度こんどやすみ、どっかこうよ。

kondo no yasumi, dokka ikou yo.

Let's go somewhere on the next day off. casual

  • contraction
  • alternant

Examples

somewhere — the place is left open, either because the speaker does not know it or because any one will do

週末しゅうまつはどこかにかけるつもりです。

shuumatsu wa dokokanidekakeru tsumori desu.

I'm planning to go out somewhere this weekend. neutral

今度こんどやすみ、どっかこうよ。

kondo no yasumi, dokka ikou yo.

Let's go somewhere on the next day off. casual

かぎをどこかにわすれてしまったみたいです。

kagi o dokoka ni okiwasurete shimatta mitai desu.

It seems I've left my keys somewhere. neutral

どこかでおいしたことはありませんか。

dokoka de o ai shita koto wa arimasen ka.

Haven't we met somewhere before? formal

よろしければ、どこかですこしおやすみになりませんか。

yoroshikereba, dokoka de sukoshi o yasumi ni narimasen ka.

If you'd like, won't you rest somewhere for a little while? formal

Formation

Variant notes

Notes

The same か leaves any question word open — なにか, だれか, いつか,
どれか — and each keeps the particle its verb wants (だれかにく).

Related patterns

Similar

  • Both duck a specific answer, but とか is casual speech and gets there by naming a sample member (カフェとかでおう), while どこか names no member at all and stays register-neutral, so it is what a formal request uses (どこかで少々しょうしょうちいただけますか).

Lookalikes

  • Same どこ, and the particle after it flips the sentence — か opens ONE unnamed place, も sweeps every place and demands a negative (どこにもいてない); どこか survives a negative only outside its scope (どこかにかないと), so the plain negation of どこかにった is どこにもかなかった.

  • Both are the particle か and the two co-occur freely (どこかきましたか) — the sentence-final one asks about the whole clause, this one only refuses to name the place, and in casual speech the asking half is carried by intonation alone (どこかった?).