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English
Prepositional phrase
for now
- At the moment; until later.
- Synonym: for the present
That's enough for now, we can continue our conversation tomorrow.
2013 August 31, “Sea change”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851:For now the real climate-change refugees may be living not above sea level but below it. Researchers […] have found that, since 1970, stocks of some fish species have gradually been moving towards the world’s colder regions. […] The world’s fish stocks, it seems, are heralding a migration that may one day occur above the seas too.
Translations
at the moment; until later
- Belarusian: паку́ль (pakúlʹ)
- Catalan: per ara
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (at the moment) 目前 (zh) (mùqián), (temporarily) 暫時／暂时 (zh) (zànshí)
- Danish: indtil videre, foreløbig (da)
- Dutch: voorlopig (nl)
- Finnish: tällä erää, tällä haavaa (fi)
- French: pour le moment (fr), pour l’instant (fr)
- German: vorerst (de), erst einmal, fürs Erste (de)
- Hungarian: egyelőre (hu)
- Icelandic: í bili, núna (is)
- Italian: per ora, per adesso
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: inntil videre, foreløpig (no)
- Nynorsk: inntil vidare, foreløpig
- Persian: فعلا (fa) (fe'lan)
- Polish: na razie (pl)
- Portuguese: por enquanto (pt), por ora (pt)
- Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), на да́нный моме́нт (na dánnyj momént)
- Spanish: por ahora
- Swedish: för tillfället (sv), just nu
- Ukrainian: по́ки (póky)
- Welsh: am dro, am y tro
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