now and then

English

Etymology

Compare Dutch nu en dan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌnaʊ ən(d) ˈðɛn/
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Adverb

now and then (not comparable)

(idiomatic) sometimes; occasionally; intermittently
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:occasionally

Call your mother now and then and let her know you care.
- 2024 March 6, Pip Dunn, “Freight's future is in ISO containers”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 36:
  I'm a writer first, but I do have my HGV licence, and I use it every now and then.

Translations

(idiomatic) sometimes; occasionally; intermittently

Afrikaans: af en toe
Armenian: ժամանակ առ ժամանակ (žamanak aṙ žamanak)
Azerbaijani: arabir (az), vaxtaşırı
Catalan: de tant en tant (ca), ara i adés (ca), adesiara (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 偶爾／偶尔 (zh) (ǒu'ěr), 時而／时而 (zh) (shí'ér)
Czech: tu a tam
Danish: nu og da
Dutch: af en toe (nl), nu en dan (nl)
Esperanto: de tempo al tempo, fojfoje (eo)
Finnish: silloin tällöin (fi), joskus (fi)
French: de temps en temps (fr), de temps à autre (fr)
Georgian: ხანგამოშვებით (xangamošvebit), დროგამოშვებით (drogamošvebit), წამდაუწუმ (c̣amdauc̣um), კანტიკუნტად (ḳanṭiḳunṭad), დროდადრო (drodadro)
German: hin und wieder (de), ab und zu (de), mitunter (de)
Greek: πότε-πότε (póte-póte), πού και πού (el) (poú kai poú)
Hungarian: hébe-hóba (hu), egyszer-egyszer (hu), időnként (hu), olykor (hu), néha (hu), olykor-olykor (hu), néha-néha (hu)
Hunsrik: ab un zu
Icelandic: stöku sinnum
Ido: tempope (io)
Irish: anois is arís, anois agus arís
Italian: di tanto in tanto (it), ogni tanto (it)
Japanese: 時々 (ja) (tokidoki), 偶に (ja) (tama ni)
Lao: ເລື້ອຍໆ (lư̄ai lư̄ai)
Latin: interdum
Norwegian: av og til (no), nå og da
Occitan: de quand en quand
Polish: od czasu do czasu (pl), raz na jakiś czas (pl)
Portuguese: vez por outra, de vez em quando (pt), ocasionalmente (pt)
Romanian: câteodată (ro), uneori (ro), când și când
Russian: то и де́ло (ru) (to i délo), времена́ми (ru) (vremenámi), вре́мя от вре́мени (ru) (vrémja ot vrémeni)
Scottish Gaelic: an-dràsta 's a-rithist, corra uair
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ту и тамо, с времена на време, некад и некад

Roman: sada i tada, s vremena na vrijeme
Spanish: de vez en cuando (es)
Swedish: av och till (sv), till och från, då och då (sv)
Tagalog: paminsan-minsan
Turkish: ara sıra (tr), bazen (tr)
Ukrainian: час від ча́су (uk) (čas vid čásu)
Welsh: bob hyn a hyn

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