now

Significat (anglès)

Adj

1. Present; current.
2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

Adv

1. At the present time.
2. Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. At the time reached within a narration.
5. Used to indicate a context of urgency.
6. (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
7. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
8. Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
9. Sometimes; occasionally.

Conj

Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

Intj

Indicates a signal to begin.

Noun

1. The present time.
2. The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
3. A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

Verb

Misspelling of know.

Sinònims

at present

today

nowadays

immediately

at this time

currently

then

presently

well

already

present time

present

right now

here

at this moment

at once

so

this time

just now

present moment

this

right away

these days

soon

🔜

just

instantly

forthwith

yet

current

for the present

recently

current time

this moment

at the moment

well then

directly

𐑌𐐵

again

🔁

at the present time

but

first

1st

from now on

hurry

in these days

like a shot

straightaway

straight off

thereupon

therefore

shoes

appear

this occasion

promptly

since

proximal

observe

still

on this occasion

accordingly

straight away

and

almost

henceforth

lately

now that

priority

the present

there

existing

now and then

please

point

precisely

even now

present day

even

present tense

durative

quickly

ready

really

day

come

by this time

shortly

by now

betimes

soonly

at this moment in time

straightway

suddenly

behold

goodbye

👋

anyway

anymore

thus

time

⌚

another time

start with

trendy

and so

and then

agone

in this case

right then

very soon

well now

ago

let me see

at this late hour

actually

erelong

A.D.

B.C.

this instant

at the present moment

about

now-adays

here are

hereby

here is

herewith

here you are

sharpish

however

in

inasmuch as

in due course

for the time being

in the meantime

-

for the moment

fashionable

just then

bomb away

look

meanwhile

modern

modern era

modern times

more

nearly

next

next time

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/naʊ/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisian no (“now”), Dutch nu, nou (“now”), German nu, nun (“now”), Norwegian Bokmål nå (“now”), Norwegian Nynorsk no (“now”), Swedish and Danish nu (“now”), Icelandic nú (“now”), Latin num (“even now, whether”), Latin nunc (“now”), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Sanskrit नु (nu, “now”).

Sents

Now what do you say ?

It was now near midnight .

Is it raining right now ?

He now plays beach soccer .

This investigation is now compromised .

To send it now in large amounts is bad .

Now he was here not with his flock , but with a shovel .

I feel a little sheepish now .