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How to pronounce now
Say it like this: /naʊ/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does now mean?
adjPresent; current.
“Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.”
Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
“I think this band's sound is very now.”
advAt the present time.
“Stop that now, Jimmy!”
Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
“Now, Jimmy, stop that.”
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
“Now I am ready.”
conjSince, because, in light of the fact.
“Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry.”
intjIndicates a signal to begin.
“Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!”
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