recently

English

Etymology

recent +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsəntli/

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Adverb

recently (comparative more recently, superlative most recently)

1. In the recent past; newly; lately; freshly; not long since.

   advices recently received

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess^[1]:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

Antonyms

• long ago
• long since

Translations

in the recent past

• American Sign Language: X@Cheek-PalmBack Hook
• Arabic: بِالْأَمْس (bi-l-ʾams), مُنْذُ عَهْد قَرِيب (munḏu ʿahd qarīb), مُنْذُ فَتْرَة قَرِيبَة (munḏu fatra qarība), مُؤَخَّرًا (muʾaḵḵaran), حَدِيثًا (ḥadīṯan)
• Azeri: bayaq
• Catalan: recentment, últimament, darrerament
• Chechen: дукха хан йоццуш (duqa χan joccuš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最近 (zh) (zuìjìn), 近日 (zh) (jìnrì)

• Crimean Tatar: keçende, keçenlerde, yaqında, yaqınlarda
• Czech: nedávno (cs)
• Dutch: onlangs (nl), recentelijk (nl), laatst (nl), overlaatst
• Esperanto: lastatempe
• Finnish: äskettäin (fi), viime aikoina (fi), hiljattain, taannoin
• French: dernièrement (fr), récemment (fr), ces derniers temps
• Galician: recentemente, ultimamente
• Georgian: ახლახან (axlaxan)
• German: neulich (de), kürzlich (de), letztens (de), unlängst (de), vor kurzem (all referring to a particular recent event); in letzter Zeit (referring to the recent time as a whole)
• Greek: πρόσφατα (el) (prósfata), προσφάτως (el) (prosfátos)
• Hungarian: nemrég (hu), mostanában (hu), az utóbbi időben
• Icelandic: nýlega
• Italian: di recente, recentemente (it), ultimamente (it)
• Japanese: この間 (このあいだ, kono aida), 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin), 先頃 (ja) (さきごろ, sakigoro)
• Khmer: ថ្មីៗ (tməy-tməy), ថ្មីៗនេះ (tməy-tməy nih)
• Korean: 근래 (ko) (geullae), 요즘 (ko) (yojeum), 요새 (ko) (yosae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: له‌م چه‌ندانه‌دا

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: baru-baru ini
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nylig, i det siste

  Nynorsk: nyleg, i det siste

• Persian: اخیراً (fa) (akhiran), به تازگی (be tâzegi)
• Polish: niedawno (pl), ostatnio (pl)
• Portuguese: recentemente (pt), ultimamente, nos últimos tempos
• Romanian: recent (ro), de curând, în ultimul timp
• Russian: неда́вно (ru) (nedávno), в после́днее вре́мя (v poslédneje vrémja)
• Scottish Gaelic: o chionn ghoirid
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gano

• Spanish: recientemente (es), hace poco, últimamente (es)
• Sundanese: cikénéh
• Swahili: majuzi (sw)
• Swedish: nyligen (sv), på senare tid
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: недавно (nadávno), останнім часом (ostannim časom)
• Vietnamese: gần đây (vi), mới đây (vi)
• Volapük: enu (vo)
• West Frisian: koartlyn
• Yiddish: אַנומלט (anumlt), לעצטנס (letstns)