right now

English

Adverb

right now (not comparable)

1. At the present moment.

   I'm not feeling very good right now.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     May I see the studio? - Um, maybe another time? Right now I am busy.

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2. Immediately.

   You'd better get out of here right now!

Synonyms

• (at this precise moment): at the moment; see also Thesaurus:currently
• (immediately): this instant; see also Thesaurus:immediately

Translations

at this precise moment

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: ara mateix
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 此時 (zh), 此时 (zh) (cǐshí)

• Danish: lige nu
• Esperanto: ĝuste nun
• Finnish: juuri nyt, välittömästi (fi), nyt heti
• French: en ce moment (fr)
• Galician: agora mesmo
• Georgian: ამწუთას (amc̣utas), ახლავე (axlave)
• German: gerade jetzt, genau jetzt
• Greek: τώρα αμέσως (tóra amésos)
• Hebrew: כרגע‎, עכשיו‎ (he), עכשיו בדיוק‎ (emphatic)
• Hungarian: éppen most (hu), épp most (hu), most éppen, most (hu), jelenleg (hu), jelen pillanatban, pillanatnyilag (hu)
• Japanese: 今すぐ (いますぐ, imasugu)
• Khmer: ឥឡូវហ្នឹង (i’ləv nɨŋ)
• Malagasy: izao dieny izao

• Marathi: अत्ताच (attāc), याच वेळी (yāc veḷī)
• Mongolian: яг одоо (jag odoo)
• Navajo: tʼáá kʼad
• Norwegian: akkurat nå
• Norwegian Nynorsk: akkurat no
• Old English: nū rihte
• Persian: الان‎ (fa) (alân), هم‌اکنون‎ (ham-aknun), در حال حاضر‎ (dar hâl-e hâzer)
• Polish: właśnie teraz
• Portuguese: agora mesmo
• Russian: пря́мо сейча́с (prjámo sejčás), как ра́з сейча́с (kak ráz sejčás), в э́тот моме́нт (v étot momént)
• Serbo-Croatian: управо сада, upravo sada
• Spanish: ahora mismo, ahorita (es)
• Swedish: just nu
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: şu anda
• Ukrainian: пря́мо за́раз (prjámo záraz)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

immediately — see immediately

See also

• right here

Anagrams

• Worthing, ingrowth, throwing, worthing