Translation
now
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Examples
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Now is the time.
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What am I to do now?
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Only now do I understand.
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Not now, but tomorrow.
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By now that is enough.
is "now" at the moment of speaking, standing against and for a moment in the past. It is worth keeping it distinct from , which the dictionaries also gloss as "now": adds "already, by this point" to a time, whereas simply names the present one. In argument it also carries the sense "as things actually stand", usually as , setting the real case against a hypothetical one just entertained. Adverb, so no case.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 8: nunc, nam, quia and 11 more words.