Monday, January 06, 2014

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Spanish Word of the Day
Monday, January 6, 2014

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ahora, adverb
now

Of course, you all know ahora in its basic meaning of now.

ahora o nunca
now or never

¡Ahora me lo dices!
Now you tell me!

In today's Spanish Word of the Day let's look at some useful phrases about time which use ahora. First, when you want to say clearly how something must be in future, you can use de ahora en adelante, from now on:

De ahora en adelante lo haremos así.
From now on we'll do it like this.

Then, if something is only temporary or provisional, por ahora, for the moment, for now:

Es todo lo que quiere comentar, por ahora.
That's the only comment he wants to make for the moment.

Por ahora sólo hay promesas.
For the moment there are only promises.

Finally, when you need to talk about what's happened so far, up till now, you use hasta ahora:

si las cosas van a seguir como hasta ahora
if things carry on as they have so far

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