jetzt.
now (at this moment, right now)
Meaning & usage
now (at this moment, right now)
Ich bin jetzt da.
Jetzt gibt es sowas gar nicht mehr.
now, then (expressing a logical or temporal consequence)
Wir haben abgewaschen, jetzt müssen wir noch abtrocknen.
Was bedeuten jetzt die geschilderten Entwicklungen für unser Land?
now (unstressed and expletive, used for minor emphasis)
Was soll das jetzt heißen?
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German iez, ieze, iezū, iezō, iezuo, from Old High German iozuo (“straightaway, at once; further”), equivalent to je + zu. Compare English yet, Yiddish יעצט (yetst).
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