No. 48 in Persian

برخی

Some, certain.

In a sentence

برخی از دانش‌آموزان در امتحان بسیار خوب عمل کردند.
Some of the students performed very well in the exam.
Here, 'برخی' means 'some' and is used to indicate a subset of a group (students) in a specific context.
برخی معتقدند که یادگیری زبان دوم مفید است.
Some believe that learning a second language is beneficial.
In this usage, 'برخی' serves as a pronoun to refer to an unspecified group of people.
این نظریه برای برخی جالب و برای دیگران بی‌اهمیت است.
This theory is interesting to some and irrelevant to others.
'برخی' here denotes a portion of people in contrast with another group, indicated as 'others'.

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