soon

See also sōon

English

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Etymology

From Middle English soone, sone, from Old English sōna (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-Germanic *sēna, *sēnô (“immediately, soon, then”), from Proto-Germanic *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun). Cognate with Scots sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), Dutch dialectal zaan (“soon, before long”), Middle Low German sān (“right afterwards, soon”), Middle High German sān, son (“soon, then”), Old High German sār (“immediately, soon”). Compare also Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͞on, IPA: /suːn/, X-SAMPA: /su:n/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Adjective

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. Occurring within a short time, or quickly

Adverb

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly
2. Within a short time; quickly
3. early

Derived terms

• get well soon
• sooner or later
• soon enough
• soonish
• too soon

Translations

within a short time

• Afrikaans: binnekort (af)
• Albanian: shpejt (sq)
• Arabic: قريبًا (ar) (qarīban)
• Armenian: շուտով (hy) (šutov), շուտ (hy) (šut)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: хутка (be) (xútka), скора (be) (skóra)
• Bengali: শীঘ্রই (bn) (shighrô'i)
• Breton: bremaik
• Bulgarian: скоро (bg) (skóro)
• Burmese: မကြာမတင် (my) (makja matin)
• Catalan: aviat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不久 (cmn) (bùjiǔ), 快 (cmn) (kuài)

• Czech: brzy (cs), zanedlouho (cs)
• Danish: snart (da)
• Dutch: zo (nl), spoedig (nl), binnenkort (nl)
• Esperanto: baldaŭ (eo)
• Estonian: varsti (et), peagi (et)
• Faroese: skjótt (fo), brátt (fo)
• Finnish: pian (fi), kohta (fi)
• French: bientôt (fr)
• Georgian: მალე (ka) (male)
• German: bald (de)
• Greek: σύντομα (el) (sýntoma), νωρίς (el) (norís)
• Guernésiais: biètaot
• Hebrew: בקרוב (he) (bekaróv)
• Hindi: जल्दी (hi) (jaldī)
• Hungarian: hamar (hu), nemsokára (hu), mindjárt (hu)
• Icelandic: bráðum (is), brátt (is), fljótlega (is)
• Ido: balde
• Indonesian: segera (id)
• Irish: go luath (ga)
• Italian: presto (it), a breve (it)
• Japanese: すぐに (ja) (sugu ni), やがて (ja) (yagate)
• Khmer: នៅ​ពេល​ជិត ៗ នេះ (sh) (nou bpayl jeut jeut nih)
• Korean: 곧 (ko) (got)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: له‌م نزیکه‌

• Lao: ໃນບໍ່ຊ້ານີ້ (lo) (nái bɔ̄ː sâː nîː)
• Latin: mox (la)
• Latvian: drīz (lv)
• Lithuanian: greitai (lt)
• Luxembourgish: geschwënn (lb)
• Macedonian: наскоро (mk) (náskoro)
• Maltese: dalwaqt (mt)
• Mapudungun: matumatu
• Mongolian: удахгүй (mn) (udahgüy)
• Norwegian: snart (no)
• Old English: sōna (ang)
• Old Portuguese: logo
• Persian: زود (fa) (zud), بزودی (fa) (bezudi)
• Polish: wkrótce (pl), niedługo (pl)
• Portuguese: logo (pt), cedo (pt)
• Romanian: curând (ro)
• Russian: скоро (ru) (skóro), вскоре (ru) (vskóre)
• Scots: sune
• Scottish Gaelic: a dh'aithghearr (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ускоро (sh), убрзо (sh)

  Roman: uskoro (sh), ubrzo (sh)

• Slovak: skoro (sk), čoskoro (sk), zanedlho (sk)
• Slovene: kmálu (sl)
• Spanish: pronto (es)
• Swedish: snart (sv)
• Thai: ในไม่ช้า (th) (nai mâi cháa), ไม่นาน (th) (mâi naan)
• Turkish: birazdan (tr), biraz sonra (tr); hemen (tr), şimdi (tr), derhal (tr); erken (tr); seve seve (tr), memnuniyetle (tr)
• Ukrainian: скоро (uk) (skóro), незабаром (uk) (nezabárom)
• Urdu: جلدی (ur) (jaldī)
• Vietnamese: sớm (vi), chẳng bao lâu nữa (vi)
• Volapük: suno (vo)
• Welsh: yn fuan (cy)
• West Frisian: tel (fy)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: something · gave · asked · #215: soon · almost · thou · full

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Estonian

Etymology

Proto-Finnic *sooni (compare Finnish sooni), from Proto-Uralic *sëxni. Farther cognates include Hungarian ín

Noun

soon (genitive soone, partitive soont)

1. sinew

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.