/immeðjataˈmente/
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Translation
immediately
Word origin
From the adjective inmediato ('immediate') plus the adverbial suffix -mente, from Latin immediatus. The same root gives English immediately.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- immediatus
- English cognates
- immediately
Examples
.
Come here immediately.
, sono .
Immediately afterwards, the phone rang.
reconoci .
I recognised him immediately.
.
The doctor told him to stop smoking immediately.
alarma.
We left the building immediately on hearing the alarm.
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