nu

Etymology 1
From, name for the letter of the Greek alphabet and.

Noun

 * 1) The letter of the Greek alphabet  and.
 * 2) A measure of constringence in lenses or prisms.

Translations

 * Arabic: نُو
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: nü
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ný
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νῦ
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ни
 * Latin:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: นิว

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Interjection

 * 1)  Well?
 * 1)  Well?

Translations

 * Russian:
 * Yiddish: נו

Etymology 3
Phonetic respelling of.

Adjective

 * 1)  new

Verb

 * 1)  to hear
 * 2)  to sense (a smell)
 * 3)  to ask, enquire

Verb

 * 1) to drink

Noun

 * 1) coconut

Etymology
From, from. Related to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) when

Etymology 1
From, from , variant of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) only

Etymology 2
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) now

Etymology 3
Historical or dialectal variants.

Noun

 * 1) house

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) no
 * 2) not

Interjection

 * 1) no

Noun

 * 1) tree

Numeral

 * 1) one

Etymology
, from.

Adjective

 * 1) nude, naked
 * 2)  barren, bare

Etymology 1
From.

Numeral

 * 1) nine

Etymology 2
From.

Pronoun

 * 1)  we

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) now (present time), present (current time)
 * 2) moment
 * 3) instant

Adverb

 * 1) now

Conjunction

 * 1) now

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Adverb

 * 1) now, at the present moment
 * 2) now, this time indicating a certain amount of impatience
 * 1) now, this time indicating a certain amount of impatience

Conjunction

 * 1) now (that)

Etymology 2
From. .

Noun

 * 1)  n letter of the Greek alphabet

Etymology
From Sorbian or Czech. Cf. .

Adverb

 * 1)  yes

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) now, at this time

Etymology
From and, of  origin. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Interjection

 * 1) well filled pause, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question

Noun

 * 1) mouth

Etymology 1
, from, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  naked, nude
 * 2)  bare

Noun

 * 1)  nude

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  Greek letter

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) naked, nude
 * 2) bare, barren

Etymology
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1) now

Etymology 1
From,. The form without a final -n remained common in some dialects and was reinforced by, from.

Etymology 2
From a Slavic dialect, probably. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. In the sense of a filled pause touching on etymology 1 above.

Interjection

 * 1)  yes; yeah;
 * 2)  well;

Noun

 * 1) the name of the letter N

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) we

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) coconut

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cow

Adjective

 * 1) talkative

Particle

 * 1) well
 * 2) now
 * 1) now

Interjection

 * 1) well

Etymology
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1) now, currently
 * 2) today
 * 3) here
 * 4) just now
 * 1) just now

Conjunction

 * 1) now that
 * 2) since, because

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  brown

Etymology
From.

Article

 * 1) a, an

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  bare

Adverb

 * 1) so, thus, like that
 * 2) so, to that extent

Noun

 * 1) a trough

Etymology 2
From.

Adverb

 * 1)  now;

Noun

 * 1) a trough

Etymology 2
From.

Adverb

 * 1)  now;

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) now
 * 2) * "odt"

- wat unbidan we nu?

Etymology
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1) now
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Nerō cwæþ, "Hwæt is nū, Simōn? Iċ wēne wit sind oferswīðde."


 * 1) just (in the sense "recently")
 * 2) since
 * 3) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Nū ðū þæt swā openlīce onġiten hæfst, ne þearfe ic nū nauht swīþe ymbe þ swincan þæt ic þē mā be gode recce.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Þȳ iċ wundriġe hwȳ þū ne mæġe onġietan þæt þū eart nū ġīet swīðe ġesǣliġ, nū þū ġīet leofast and eart hāl.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
 * "ang"

- Nu ge þam mærum godum offrian nellað, ne beo ge me næfre heonon-forð swa wurðe ne swa leofe swa ge ær wæron...

Conjunction

 * 1) now that

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) naked

Adverb

 * 1) naked

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) now

Etymology
From, from.

Particle

 * 1) then, now

Pronoun

 * it
 * he
 * 1) this one (prox masc nom)

Determiner

 * 1) this (agr: prox nom masc)

Adverb

 * 1) now

Interjection

 * 1) quick!, forward!

Etymology
, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) naked, nude

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronunciation

 * (tone class A)

Numeral

 * 1) nine

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) no
 * 2) not

Usage notes
Romanian features the double negative. Nu is stressed within a normal sentence, but in a double negative construction is left unstressed in favour of the other negative component.

In speech—even in moderately formal contexts—nu is elided before verbs beginning with a, most notably the past perfect auxiliary.

Likewise, nu triggers prodelision before words (of any part of speech) beginning with î. Elision and prodelision are orthographically marked with a hyphen where no line break may occur.

In these cases, the syllable following the n of nu takes the sentence stress, which is stronger than the primary stress of the negated word.

Interjection

 * 1) well

Etymology
.

Conjunction

 * 1)  but
 * 2)  however

Determiner

 * 1) that, those

Article

 * 1)  a, an

Usage notes
Nu is used only before words beginning with the letter z or s and a consonant, like the Italian uno

Etymology
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1) now, at this moment

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  mouse

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) coconut

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) new
 * 2) fresh

Determiner

 * 1) this, these proximal demonstrative determiner

Adverb

 * 1) now

Pronoun

 * 1) me first-person singular indirect object pronoun
 * Pinyanka nu! Katsa umawiu? Nama!
 * Tell me! What did [he] say? Come on!
 * Puputatain nu kuapi.
 * Give me a little [bit of] cotton thread.

Related terms

 * natu (I,me, my, mine)

Pronoun

 * 1) we first-person plural object pronoun

Pronoun

 * 1) he
 * 2) she

Noun

 * 1) mother