now

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adverb 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Conjunction 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Interjection 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 Noun 1.6.1 Synonyms 1.6.2 Translations 1.7 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English nū, from Proto-Indo-European *nu-, cognate with equivalents Dutch nu, German nun.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /naʊ/, SAMPA: /naU/
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  Rhymes: -aʊ

[edit] Adverb

now (not comparable)

1. At the present time.

   Now my whole life is different.

2. At the time reached within a narration.

   Well, now he remembered what he'd come there for.

3. In a manner, or regarding a topic, different from that of the immediately past.

   Now, we all want the best for our children.

4. In the context of urgency.

   Now listen, we must do something about this.

[edit] Derived terms

• nowadays
• now and then
• right now
• now, now

[edit] Translations

• Albanian: atëherë
• Estonian: praegu
• Hebrew: עכשיו
• Icelandic: nú
• Ido: nun
• Indonesian: sekarang
• Interlingua: ora
• Italian: allora
• Japanese: 今 (いま, ima)
• Spanish: ahorita (colloquial), bueno, entonces

[edit] Conjunction

now

1. since, because, in light of the fact.

   We can play football now that the rain has stopped.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Interjection

now!

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

   Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!

[edit] Translations

• Dutch: nu!

[edit] Noun

now (usually uncountable; plural nows)

1. (uncountable) The present time.

   Now is the right time.

   There is no better time than now.

   1. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

      She is living in the now.

   2. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
      • 1982, Albert Hofstadter, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, translation of original by Martin Heidegger, page 249:

        Time is not thrust together and summed up out of nows, but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways.

[edit] Synonyms

• (not paying attention to the future or past): here and now

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• own
• won