for now

English

Prepositional phrase

for now

1. At the moment; until later.

   Synonym: for the present

   That's enough for now, we can continue our conversation tomorrow.

   • 2013 August 31, “Sea change”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851:

     For now the real climate-change refugees may be living not above sea level but below it. Researchers […] have found that, since 1970, stocks of some fish species have gradually been moving towards the world’s colder regions. […] The world’s fish stocks, it seems, are heralding a migration that may one day occur above the seas too.

Translations

at the moment; until later

• Belarusian: паку́ль (pakúlʹ)
• Catalan: per ara
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (at the moment) 目前 (zh) (mùqián), (temporarily) 暫時／暂时 (zh) (zànshí)

• Danish: indtil videre, foreløbig (da)
• Dutch: voorlopig (nl)
• Finnish: tällä erää, tällä haavaa (fi)
• French: pour le moment (fr), pour l’instant (fr)
• German: vorerst (de), erst einmal, fürs Erste (de)
• Hungarian: egyelőre (hu)
• Icelandic: í bili, núna (is)
• Italian: per ora, per adesso
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inntil videre, foreløpig (no)

  Nynorsk: inntil vidare, foreløpig

• Persian: فعلا (fa) (fe'lan)
• Polish: na razie (pl)
• Portuguese: por enquanto (pt), por ora (pt)
• Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), на да́нный моме́нт (na dánnyj momént)
• Spanish: por ahora
• Swedish: för tillfället (sv), just nu
• Ukrainian: по́ки (póky)
• Welsh: am dro, am y tro

Anagrams

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