now

/naʊ/

US pronunciation

American sound/naʊ/

now

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short oo vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> now

Myanmar meaning

(adv) ယခု

Full entry

now /naƱ/ adv

၁။ (က) ယခုအချိန်။ ယခုအခါ။ Where are you living now? ❍ People used to go to the cinema, but now they watch television more. ❍ It's now ten years since we got married. (ခ) ယခု။ အခု။ ခု။ Now (eg After all these interruptions) I can get on with my work. ❍ Start writing now. ❍ I am now ready to answer your questions. (ဂ) (used after a prep or as the subject of a v ) ယခုအချိန်။ I never realized I loved you until now. ❍ He should have arrived by now. ❍ Now is the best time to visit the gardens. Compare THEN ၁
၂။ (စိတ်ကသိ ကအောက်ဖြစ်သံပါသော စကား)။ ကဲ။ Now the government wants to tax food! ❍ What do you want now?
၃။ (က) (အချိန်ကာလကို မရည်ညွှန်း၊ အာရုံကို ဆွဲဆောင်လိုရာ၌ သုံးသည်။ ) အဲဒီလိုနဲ့။ ဒါနဲ့ပဲ။ အဲဒါ။ Now the country was ruled by a handsome prince. ❍ The phone's ringing. Now who can that be? (ခ) (အမိန့်ပေးသံ၊ သတိပေးသံဖြင့် သုံးသော စကား)။ ကိုင်းကိုင်း။ ကဲကဲ။ Now be quiet for a few moments and listen to this. ❍ No cheating, now.
conj ~ (that)… လို့မို့။ ပြီမို့။ Now (that) you mention it, I do remember the incident. ❍ Now you've passed your test you can drive on your own.
❏ (every) now and again/ then [IDM ] မကြာခဏ။ ခဏခဏ။ I like to go to the opera now and then. ❍ Every now and again she checked to see if he was still asleep.
❏ now, now; now then [IDM ] (သဘောမကျခြင်း၊ သတိ ပေးခြင်းကို ဖော်ပြသော စကား)။ ကဲ ကဲ။ Now, now,/ Now then, that's enough noise.
❏ now…now [IDM ] ခုတစ်မျိုး ခုတစ်မျိုး။ Her moods kept changing—now happy, now sad.
❏ (it's) now or never [IDM ] အခုလုပ်လျှင်လုပ်။ အခုသည် အကောင်းဆုံးအချိန်။ If you want to ask her to marry you, it's now or never. She's leaving the country tomorrow.
❏ now for sb/ sth [IDM ] (အကြောင်းအရာသစ်၊ လုပ်ငန်းသစ် ကို စတင်ရန် နိဒါန်းချီသော စကား)။ ကဲ အခုကစပြီး။ Now for a quick swim before lunch. ❍ And now for some travel news.
❏ now then [IDM ]
၁။ = Now, Now
၂။ ကိုင်း။ ကဲ။ Now then, who wants to come for a walk?

More examples

He is now 48 years old.
She’s been very ill, but she’s much better now.
[by/before now] : The meeting should have finished by now.
I’ve never been to a formal dinner party before now, and I’m not quite sure how to behave.
[from now on] : Nancy will be working full-time from now on.
[as of now] : The rule will take effect as of now.
[for now] : Prices will remain unchanged for now.
Goodbye for now.
[up to now/until now] : Until now, we’ve had very mild weather this winter.
[right now] : Right now I’m not interested in dating – I need to spend some time alone.
[not now] : ‘Can I ask you a question?’ ‘Not now – I’m busy.’
[now is the time/moment] : Now is the time to look forward, make plans for the future, and work together.
If everyone else has finished in the bathroom, I’ll have my shower now.
[right now] : ‘Can you call me back?’ ‘No, I need to talk to you right now.’
It’s three years now since I moved south from Scotland.
The farm workers have been there for about two weeks now.
Having inherited the money, she knew that things would now be much better.
[now (that)] : Now that the war is over, there is a lot more food in the shops.
Now I’m back here, I can hardly walk down a street without seeing someone I know.
Now I see why she didn’t want to go with me – she was interested in George.
We ran down the road and past the house, which was now hidden in the darkness.
Now come on, tell me what’s been happening.
Don’t forget now – phone me tomorrow.
Now that’s what I like about Harry – he’s always cheerful.

Synonyms

at the present, at the moment, at this time, currently, at present, nowadays, at this moment, at this instant, at this point, PDQ, a go-go, ahead of its time, all in all, all the rage, all things considered, any more, as, as long as, at cutting edge, at once, at present time, avant garde, away, brand new, breaking new ground, caught on, common knowledge, considering, contempo, contemporary, crowd-pleasing, current, cutting-edge, dewy, directly, dressed to kill, dressed to the teeth, even now, everything being equal, existent, faddish, faddy, far cry, fashionable, first off, for, for the reason that, for the time being, forasmuch as, forthwith, fresh, funky, going around, hair-trigger, hairtrigger, hep to, here and now, high class, hip, hot off press, hot off the press, immediate, immediately, in, in a jiffy, in a minute, in a moment, in circulation, in consideration of, in demand, in duration, in fashion, in favor, in good time, in half a shake, in light of, in nothing flat, in on, in process, in progress, in style, in the know, in the mainstream, in the news, in thing, in use, in view of, in-thing, insomuch as, instanter, instantly, just now, just out, last-word, latest word, latter-day, leading-edge, like now, modern, modish, momentarily, neoteric, new, new-fashioned, nontraditional, novel, occurring now, on front burner, on hand, on the double, on to, plugged in, popular, present, present day, present-day, presently, prevalent, promptly, pronto, red hot, redhot, right away, right now, run after, run of the mill, run-after, seeing that, since, snazzy, soon, sought after, sought-after, spick and span, spiffy, straightaway, stylish, swank, switched on, synchronic, taking place, the latest, the rage, these days, this day, this day and age, this season's, timely, timeous, today, tony, towardly, trendsetting, trendy, trig, tuned in, Ã la mode

Antonyms

eventually, future, later, past, then