now

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• General-American, Ireland, Received-Pronunciation: /naʊ/
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• Northumbria: /nuː/
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• /næʊ/ Dublin
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• /nɛʊ/ Dublin
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From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?"). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo, nou, now (“now”), Yola neow, now, nowe (“now”), North Frisian nü (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Limburgish noe, Nuu (“now”), Danish and Swedish nu (“now”), Elfdalian nų (“now”), Faroese nú, núgv (“now”), Icelandic nú, núna (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk no, nu, nå (“now”), Gothic 𐌽𐌿 (nu, “now”); also Gaulish nu (“now”), Latin num (“now”), Greek νυν (nyn, “currently, now”), Albanian ni, tani (“now”), Bulgarian ни́не (níne, “currently, now”), Czech nyní (“now”), Old Polish ninie (“now”), Russian но́не (nóne), ны́не (nýne, “now, today”), Ukrainian ни́ні (nýni, “nowadays; today”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “currently, now”), Baluchi نون (nún, “now”), Persian اکنون (aknun / aknūn), کنون (konun), نون (nun / nūn, “now”), Northern Kurdish ana, anaka, anêka, aniha, anika, naga, naha, naka, niha, niho, nika, noke, ئانا (ana), نکا (nka, “now”), Ossetian ныр (nyr, “now”), Hittite 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un, “now”), Luwian 𒈾𒀀𒉡𒌦 (nānun, “now”), Tocharian A nuṃ (“again, once more”), Tocharian B nano (“again, once more”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).

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434 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: nykyinen — present; current
• Finnish: tämänhetkinen — present; current
• German: jetzig — present; current
• Abkhaz: уажәы (waẑwə) — at the present time
• Aghwan: 𐔼 (i) — at the present time
• Ahom: 𑜀𑜠𑜃𑜩 (kanay) — at the present time
• Akkadian: inanna — at the present time
• Albanian: tani — at the present time
• Aleut: waya — at the present time
• Alviri-Vidari: آتا (ātā) — at the present time
• Amharic: አሁን (ʾähun) — at the present time
• Chungli Ao: tang — at the present time
• Arabic: الْآنَ — at the present time
• Arabic: حَالًا (ḥālan) — at the present time
• Arabic: دلوقتي (delwaʔti) — at the present time
• Arabic: الحين (el-ḥīn) — at the present time
• Arabic: دحين (daḥēn, daḥīn) — at the present time
• Iraqi Arabic: هسه (hassa, hissa) — at the present time
• Arabic: دابا (dāba) — at the present time
• Arabic: دورك (durk) — at the present time
• Arabic: هلا (halla) — at the present time
• Arabic: هلأ (hallaʔ) — at the present time
• Arabic: هلق (hallaʔ) — at the present time
• Arabic: هلا (hallaʔ) — at the present time
• Arabic: هلقيت (halqet) — at the present time
• Arabic: هسا (hassa) — at the present time
• Arabic: الحين (alḥīn) — at the present time
• Arabic: إسا (ʔissa) — at the present time
• Aragonese: agora — at the present time
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܕܝܼܵܐ (ādīyā) — at the present time
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܫܵܐ (hāšā) — at the present time
• Armenian: այժմ (ayžm) — at the present time
• Armenian: հիմա (hima) — at the present time
• Armenian: հեսա (hesa) — at the present time
• Aromanian: acmo — at the present time
• Assamese: এতিয়া (etia) — at the present time
• Asturian: agora — at the present time
• Avar: гьабсагӏат (habsaʻat) — at the present time
• Avar: гьанже (hanže) — at the present time
• Azerbaijani: indi — at the present time
• Bangi: sikawa — at the present time
• Bashkir: хәҙер (xəźer) — at the present time
• Basque: orain — at the present time
• Belarusian: за́раз (záraz) — at the present time
• Belarusian: цяпе́р (cjapjér) — at the present time
• Bengali: এখন (ekhon) — at the present time
• Bhojpuri: अभी (abhī) — at the present time
• Breton: bremañ — at the present time
• Bulgarian: сега́ (segá) — at the present time
• Burmese: အခု (a.hku.) — at the present time
• Burmese: ယခု (ya.hku.) — at the present time
• Catalan: ara — at the present time
• Cebuano: karon — at the present time
• Chechen: хӏинца (hinca) — at the present time
• Chichewa: tsopano — at the present time
• Chinese Cantonese: 而家 (ji4 gaa1) — at the present time
• Chinese Cantonese: 依家 (ji1 gaa1) — at the present time
• Chinese Cantonese: 如今 (jyu4 gam1) — at the present time
• Chinese Cantonese: 現在 /现在 (jin6 zoi6) — at the present time
• Chinese Cantonese: 現今 /现今 (jin6 gam1) — at the present time
• Chinese Cantonese: 現時 /现时 (jin6 si4) — at the present time
• Chinese: щүанзэ (xüanze) — at the present time
• Chinese: щянзэ (xianze) — at the present time
• Chinese: вуҗин (vujin) — at the present time
• Eastern Min Chinese: 現時 /现时 (hiêng-sṳ̀) — at the present time
• Gan Chinese: 現在 /现在 (xien5 'cai5) — at the present time
• Hakka Chinese: 這下 /这下 (yá-ha, liá-ha) — at the present time
• Hakka Chinese: 今這下 /今这下 (kîm-yá-ha) — at the present time
• Hakka Chinese: 現下 /现下 (hien-ha) — at the present time
• Hakka Chinese: 如今 (yì-kîm) — at the present time
• Chinese: 這馬 /这马 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 這陣 /这阵 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 今 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 現此時 /现此时 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 這時 /这时 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 這路尾 /这路尾 (chit-lǒo-bér) — at the present time
• Chinese: 這站 /这站 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 這久 /这久 (chit-kú) — at the present time
• Chinese: 現在 /现在 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 現今 /现今 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese: 現晡時 /现晡时 (hiān-po͘-sî) — at the present time
• Chinese: 現時 /现时 (hiān-sî) — at the present time
• Chinese: 如今 (zh-min-nan) — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 現在 /现在 — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 如今 (rújīn) — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 現今 /现今 (xiànjīn) — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 現下 /现下 (xiànxià) — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 現時 /现时 (xiànshí) — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 這陣 /这阵 (zhèzhèn) — at the present time
• Chinese Mandarin: 這晚子 /这晚子 — at the present time
• Northern Min Chinese: 迦今 (giâ-gíng) — at the present time
• Wu Chinese: 現在 /现在 — at the present time
• Wu Chinese: 乃 — at the present time
• Czech: teď — at the present time
• Czech: nyní — at the present time
• Dalmatian: jamo — at the present time
• Dalmatian: adias — at the present time
• Danish: nu — at the present time
• Dolgan: аны — at the present time
• Dutch: nu — at the present time
• Dutch: nou — at the present time
• Dutch: thans — at the present time
• Esperanto: nun — at the present time
• Estonian: nüüd — at the present time
• Extremaduran: agora — at the present time
• Extremaduran: angora — at the present time
• Extremaduran: ara — at the present time
• Faroese: nú — at the present time
• Finnish: nyt — at the present time
• French: maintenant — at the present time
• Old French: or — at the present time
• Old French: ore — at the present time
• Galician: agora — at the present time
• Georgian: ახლა (axla) — at the present time
• German: jetzt — at the present time
• German: nun — at the present time
• German: gerade — at the present time
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌿 (nu) — at the present time
• Greek: τώρα (tóra) — at the present time
• Ancient Greek: νῦν (nûn) — at the present time
• Gujarati: ઓણ (oṇa) — at the present time
• Gujarati: અધુના (adhunā) — at the present time
• Gujarati: હવે (have) — at the present time
• Gujarati: અત્યારે (atyāre) — at the present time
• Hawaiian: ʻānō — at the present time
• Hebrew: עַכְשָׁו ('akhsháv) — at the present time
• Hebrew: עַתָּה (attá) — at the present time
• Hebrew: כָּעֵת (ka'ét) — at the present time
• Higaonon: iman — at the present time
• Hindi: अब (ab) — at the present time
• Hindi: अधुना (adhunā) — at the present time
• Hindi: अभी (abhī) — at the present time
• Hittite: 𒆠𒉡𒌦 (ki-nu-un) — at the present time
• Hungarian: most — at the present time
• Icelandic: nú — at the present time
• Ilocano: ita — at the present time
• Indonesian: sekarang — at the present time
• Indonesian: kini — at the present time
• Ingrian: nyt — at the present time
• Ingush: хӏанз (hanz) — at the present time
• Interlingua: nunc — at the present time
• Interlingua: ora — at the present time
• Irish: anois — at the present time
• Irish: adrásta — at the present time
• Istriot: dieso — at the present time
• Italian: adesso — at the present time
• Italian: ora — at the present time
• Italian: mo — at the present time
• Ivatan: sichanguri — at the present time
• Japanese: 今 (ima) — at the present time
• Japanese: 現在 (genzai) — at the present time
• Kaitag: гьана́ (haná) — at the present time
• Kambera: nàhu — at the present time
• Kannada: ಈಗ (īga) — at the present time
• Kapampangan: ngeni — at the present time
• Kashubian: terô — at the present time
• Kazakh: қазір (qazır) — at the present time
• Kazakh: кәзір (käzır) — at the present time
• Kazakh: қазыр (qazyr) — at the present time
• Khmer: ឥឡូវនេះ (ʼəyləw nih) — at the present time
• Khmer: ឥឡូវ (ʼəyləw) — at the present time
• Korean: 지금 (jigeum) — at the present time
• Korean: 이제 (ije) — at the present time
• Central Kurdish: ئێستا (êsta) — at the present time
• Laki: ئیسکە (îske) — at the present time
• Northern Kurdish: niha — at the present time
• Southern Kurdish: ئیسە (îse) — at the present time
• Southern Kurdish: ئێرەنگە (êrenge) — at the present time
• Kyrgyz: азыр (azır) — at the present time
• Laboya: nehhe — at the present time
• Ladin: śën — at the present time
• Ladino: agora — at the present time
• Lao: ດຽວນີ້ (diāu nī) — at the present time
• Latin: nunc — at the present time
• Latin: iam — at the present time
• Latvian: tagad — at the present time
• Laz: ჰაწი (haǯi) — at the present time
• Ligurian: oua — at the present time
• Lingala: sikawa — at the present time
• Lingala: sikoyo — at the present time
• Lingala: sikasika — at the present time
• Linngithigh: kun — at the present time
• Lithuanian: dabar — at the present time
• Louisiana Creole: astè — at the present time
• Louisiana Creole: astœr — at the present time
• Luganda: kati — at the present time
• Macedonian: сега (sega) — at the present time
• Magahi: 𑂃𑂎𑂢𑂱 (akhni) — at the present time
• Maithili: एखन (ēkhan) — at the present time
• Malay: sekarang — at the present time
• Malay: kini — at the present time
• Malayalam: ഇപ്പോൾ (ippōḷ) — at the present time
• Maltese: issa — at the present time
• Manchu: ᠨᡝ (ne) — at the present time
• Manchu: ᡨᡝ (te) — at the present time
• Māori: ināianei — at the present time
• Marathi: आता (ātā) — at the present time
• Miami: noonki — at the present time
• Mirandese: agora — at the present time
• Mizo: tûnah — at the present time
• Mon: လၟုဟ် — at the present time
• Mongolian: одоо (odoo) — at the present time
• Mongolian: ᠣᠳᠤ (odu) — at the present time
• Mwani: sambi — at the present time
• Nahuatl: axcan — at the present time
• Navajo: kʼad — at the present time
• Norman: achteû — at the present time
• Norman: achteû maishî — at the present time
• Norman: açtheure (Rouen and Roumois) — at the present time
• Norman: ach'teu — at the present time
• Norman: auch't'haeure — at the present time
• Norwegian Bokmål: nå — at the present time
• Norwegian Nynorsk: no — at the present time
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nå — at the present time
• Occitan: ara — at the present time
• Ojibwe: azhigwa — at the present time
• Ojibwe: aazhay — at the present time
• Church Slavic: сьга (sĭga) — at the present time
• Church Slavic: сегꙑ (segy) — at the present time
• Church Slavic: нꙑнѣ (nyně) — at the present time
• Old East Slavic: нꙑнѣ (nyně) — at the present time
• Old East Slavic: топере (topere) — at the present time
• Old English: nū — at the present time
• Old Norse: nú — at the present time
• Ossetian: ныр (nyr) — at the present time
• Pali: adhunā — at the present time
• Pashto: اوس (os) — at the present time
• Pashto: فی الحال (felhāl) — at the present time
• Pennsylvania German: nau — at the present time
• Dari: اَکْنُون (aknūn) — at the present time
• Dari: اَلَان (alān) — at the present time
• Dari: حَالَا (hālā) — at the present time
• Iranian Persian: اَلان (alân) — at the present time
• Iranian Persian: حالا (hâlâ) — at the present time
• Iranian Persian: اَکْنون (aknun) — at the present time
• Iranian Persian: نون (nun) — at the present time
• Picard: achteure — at the present time
• Pipil: ashan — at the present time
• Pipil: axan — at the present time
• Pirahã: pi’í — at the present time
• Plautdietsch: nu (nds) — at the present time
• Polish: teraz — at the present time
• Polish: aktualnie — at the present time
• Polish: obecnie — at the present time
• Polish: nynie — at the present time
• Polish: w tej chwili — at the present time
• Polish: w tym momencie — at the present time
• Portuguese: agora — at the present time
• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀳𑀼𑀡𑀸 (ahuṇā) — at the present time
• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀅𑀥𑀼𑀦𑀸 (adhunā) — at the present time
• Pumpokol: eń — at the present time
• Punjabi: ہُݨ (huṇ) — at the present time
• Punjabi: ਹੁਣ (huṇ) — at the present time
• Old Punjabi: ਹੁਣਿ (huṇi) — at the present time
• Quechua: ña — at the present time
• Quechua: kunan — at the present time
• Rapa Nui: i te hora nei — at the present time
• Romani: akana — at the present time
• Romanian: acum — at the present time
• Russian: сейча́с (sejčás) — at the present time
• Russian: ны́не (nýne) — at the present time
• Northern Sami: dál — at the present time
• Samoan: nei — at the present time
• Sanskrit: नु (nu) — at the present time
• Sanskrit: अधुना (adhunā́) — at the present time
• Sanskrit: एतत्कालम् (etatkālam) — at the present time
• Sanskrit: इदानीम् (idā́nīm) — at the present time
• Sanskrit: इदा (idā́) — at the present time
• Scots: nou — at the present time
• Scottish Gaelic: a-nis — at the present time
• Scottish Gaelic: an-dràsta — at the present time
• Serbo-Croatian: са̏да — at the present time
• Serbo-Croatian: sȁda — at the present time
• Serrano: amai — at the present time
• Sinhalese: දැන් (dæn) — at the present time
• Slovak: teraz — at the present time
• Slovene: zdàj — at the present time
• Somali: iminka — at the present time
• Lower Sorbian: nět — at the present time
• Lower Sorbian: něto — at the present time
• Lower Sorbian: něnto — at the present time
• Lower Sorbian: něnt — at the present time
• Upper Sorbian: nětko — at the present time
• Upper Sorbian: nětk — at the present time
• Upper Sorbian: nět — at the present time
• Upper Sorbian: nětkole — at the present time
• Upper Sorbian: nětkle — at the present time
• Spanish: ahora — at the present time
• Spanish: agora — at the present time
• Swahili: sasa — at the present time
• Swedish: nu — at the present time
• Tagalog: ngayon — at the present time
• Tajik: ҳозир (hozir) — at the present time
• Tajik: ҳоло (holo) — at the present time
• Tajik: акнун (aknun) — at the present time
• Tajik: алон (alon) — at the present time
• Talysh: الان (alân) — at the present time
• Tamil: இப்போது (ippōtu) — at the present time
• Tatar: инде (inde) — at the present time
• Tatar: хәзер (xäzer) — at the present time
• Tày: cà này — at the present time
• Tày: bạt nẩy — at the present time
• Telugu: ఇప్పుడు (ippuḍu) — at the present time
• Tetum: agora — at the present time
• Thai: บัดนี้ (bàt-níi) — at the present time
• Thai: เดี๋ยวนี้ (dǐao-níi) — at the present time
• Tigrinya: ሕጂ (ḥəǧi) — at the present time
• Tocharian B: ñake — at the present time
• Tok Pisin: nau — at the present time
• Tongan: taimini — at the present time
• Tumbuka: sono — at the present time
• Turkish: şimdi — at the present time
• Turkmen: häzir — at the present time
• Tuvan: ам (am) — at the present time
• Udmurt: али (aľi) — at the present time
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎚 (ʿt) — at the present time
• Ukrainian: тепе́р (tepér) — at the present time
• Ukrainian: ни́ні (nýni) — at the present time
• Ukrainian: зараз (zaraz) — at the present time
• Urdu: اَب (ab) — at the present time
• Urdu: اَکْنُون (aknūn) — at the present time
• Urdu: اَبھی (abhī) — at the present time
• Urdu: حالا (hālā) — at the present time
• Urdu: اَدُھنا (adhunā) — at the present time
• Urdu: اِسی وَقْت (isī vaqt) — at the present time
• Uyghur: ھازىر (hazir) — at the present time
• Uyghur: ئەمدى (emdi) — at the present time
• Uzbek: hozir — at the present time
• Uzbek: endi — at the present time
• Venetan: adeso — at the present time
• Vietnamese: bây giờ — at the present time
• Vietnamese: hiện tại — at the present time
• Volapük: nu — at the present time
• Votic: nüd — at the present time
• Walloon: asteure — at the present time
• Welsh: nawr — at the present time
• Welsh: rŵan — at the present time
• Wolof: léegi — at the present time
• Yakut: аны (anï) — at the present time
• Yiddish: איצט (itst) — at the present time
• Yiddish: סייטשאַס (seytshas) — at the present time
• Yucatec Maya: beora — at the present time
• Zazaki: newke — at the present time
• Zazaki: enewke — at the present time
• Zazaki: nıka (diq) — at the present time
• Zhuang: seizneix — at the present time
• Catalan: ara bé — (word to introduce a point)
• Esperanto: nu — (word to introduce a point)
• French: alors — (word to introduce a point)
• French: or — (word to introduce a point)
• German: jetzt —not sentence-initially — (word to introduce a point)
• Japanese: いざ (iza) — (word to introduce a point)
• Japanese: さて (sate) — (word to introduce a point)
• Japanese: では (dewa) — (word to introduce a point)
• Japanese: じゃ — (word to introduce a point)
• Korean: 자 (ja) — (word to introduce a point)
• Korean: 그런데 (geureonde) — (word to introduce a point)
• Polish: no — (word to introduce a point)
• Russian: ну (nu) — (word to introduce a point)
• Russian: вот (vot) — (word to introduce a point)
• Russian: так (tak) — (word to introduce a point)
• Russian: ита́к (iták) — (word to introduce a point)
• Scottish Gaelic: nis — (word to introduce a point)
• Spanish: ahora bien — (word to introduce a point)
• Swedish: nu — (word to introduce a point)
• Turkish: şimdi — (word to introduce a point)
• Finnish: nyt — differently from another time
• Japanese: 今や (imaya) — differently from another time
• Kyrgyz: эми (emi) — differently from another time
• Russian: теперь (teperʹ) — differently from another time
• Finnish: silloin — at the time reached within a narration
• Finnish: nyt — used to indicate a context of urgency
• Finnish: tässä vaiheessa — at the present point of a recurring cycle or event
• Finnish: nyt — used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before
• Finnish: milloin — occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states
• French: tantôt — occasionally; used to list a series of often assumed states
• Arabic: بِمَا أَنّ (bimā ʔann) — since, because
• Arabic: أَمَا وَأَنّ (ʔamā waʔann) — since, because
• Catalan: ara — since, because
• Danish: nu — since, because
• Dutch: nu — since, because
• Finnish: nyt, kun — since, because
• French: maintenant que — since, because
• German: nun da — since, because
• German: nun wo — since, because
• German: jetzt wo — since, because
• Greek: τώρα που (tóra pou) — since, because
• Hungarian: most, hogy — since, because
• Icelandic: nú þegar — since, because
• Irish: anois agus — since, because
• Norwegian: nå som — since, because
• Portuguese: agora que — since, because
• Portuguese: já que — since, because
• Russian: раз уж (raz už) — since, because
• Spanish: ahora — since, because
• Swedish: nu när — since, because
• Tagalog: ngayon — since, because
• Turkish: -dan — since, because
• Turkish: -den — since, because
• Catalan: ara — signal to begin
• Catalan: ja — signal to begin
• Dutch: nu! — signal to begin
• Galician: agora — signal to begin
• Galician: xa — signal to begin
• German: jetzt — signal to begin
• German: los — signal to begin
• Italian: ora — signal to begin
• Polish: już — signal to begin
• Portuguese: agora — signal to begin
• Portuguese: já — signal to begin
• Russian: пора́ (porá) — signal to begin
• Slovak: teraz — signal to begin
• Spanish: ahora — signal to begin
• Spanish: ya — signal to begin
• Turkish: şimdi — signal to begin
• Armenian: հիմա (hima) — the present time
• Catalan: ara — the present time
• Danish: nu — the present time
• Dutch: heden — the present time
• Dutch: nu — the present time
• German: Jetzt — the present time
• Hungarian: most — the present time
• Norwegian Bokmål: nå — the present time
• Norwegian Bokmål: nu — the present time
• Norwegian Nynorsk: no — the present time
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nå — the present time
• Portuguese: agora — the present time
• Slovak: teraz — the present time
• Slovak: moment — the present time
• Spanish: ahora — the present time
• Swedish: nu — the present time
• Tagalog: ngayon — the present time
• Tonga (Zambia): eno — the present time
• Turkish: şimdi — the present time