nyt

See also: NYT, nýt, and -nyt

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnyt/, [ˈnyd̥]

Adjective

nyt

1. neuter singular of ny

Finnish

Etymology

From earlier *nyyt (the medial vowel shortened irregularly to its current form), from Proto-Finnic *nügüt. Compare nyky-, nytten. Cognates include Estonian nüüd, Livvi nügöi, Ludian nügü, Veps nügüd'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnyt/, [ˈnyt̪]
• Rhymes: -yt
• Syllabification^(key): nyt

Adverb

nyt (not comparable)

1. now (at the present time)

   Synonyms: juuri, nytten, nytte

   Olen nyt kotona.

   I'm (at) home now.

2. (colloquial) Used when understating, belittling, etc.

   Ei tämä nyt kyllä ihan hyvin mennyt.

   This didn't really go all that well, did it.

   Se nyt on pikkuseikka.

   That's just a detail.

3. (colloquial) With an imperative or request, used to emphasize, to suggest impatience, or a wish to move on, or plead, etc.; often with vain/vaan

   Tee nyt se ensin, niin katsotaan sitten.

   Just do it first and we'll see after that.

   Tulisit nyt!

   Please, please come!

   Ole nyt vaan hiljaa.

   Just be quiet, will you.

4. (colloquial) Used when talking about something that the speaker knows and feels the person being spoken to knows as well.

   Kyllä minä nyt sinua rakastan.

   (Oh come on), I do love you.

   Kai minä nyt sen tiedän!

   Surely you don't think I don't know that?

Further reading

• “nyt”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse nyt, from Proto-Germanic *nutjō (“profit; yield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪːt/
• Rhymes: -ɪːt
• Homophone: nit

Noun

nyt f (genitive singular nytjar, nominative plural nytjar)

1. use, usefulness

   Synonyms: not, gagn, nytsemi

2. the amount of milk produced by a sheep or cow; yield

Ingrian

Alternative forms

• nyttä

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nügüt. Cognates include Finnish nyt and Estonian nüüd.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnyt/, [ˈnyd]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnyt/, [ˈnyd̥]
• Rhymes: -yt
• Hyphenation: nyt

Adverb

nyt

1. now
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 30:

     Nyt ono syksy.

     It is autumn now.

   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Miä muissin, kui möö hulkuimma metsää mööt, yhenlain ku sokkiat, ja nyt kovin meinaisin oppihussa löytämää teetä, samalviittää kui pioneerat.

     I remembered, how we wandered along the forest, like we were blind, and now I really decided to learn to find the way, just like the pioneers.

See also

• paraikaa (“nowadays”)

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 11
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 352
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 82

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

nyt

1. imperative of nyte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

nyt

1. inflection of nyta:
   1. present
   2. imperative

Polish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): /ˈnɘt/

Interjection

nyt

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) used to call pigs

Derived terms

nouns

• nytka

 

Further reading

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “nyt”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 306