Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide, Second Edition

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Ich gehe jetzt die Teilnehmerliste der Reihe nach durch.
I am going through the list of participants, one after the other.

 See also 76.5b (p. 258) for taking turns.
(c) To imply that something is right next to something without a gap in between,
use anschließend an (+ acc.) ‘adjacent to’:

Anschließend an den Versorgungsraum finden wir die
Empfangsräume der römischen Villa.
Next to the supplies room we find the reception rooms of the Roman
villa.

 See 81.13b (p. 294) for temporal uses of anschließend.


81 Providing temporal context


 See 50.1 (p. 129).


81.1 Now


(a) The present moment in time is expressed

im Moment/im Augenblick/momentan ‘at the moment’
gerade ‘at the moment/just now/just then’
jetzt/nun ‘now’
bis jetzt/bisher ‘until now/hitherto’
gegenwärtig ‘currently/at present’
zur Zeit ‘at present’
heute ‘today’
dieses Jahr ‘this year’
dieses Jahrzehnt ‘this decade’

 For use of adverbs and adverbial phrases, see 5.2 (p. 8) and^50 (p. 129); for order of
adverbs see 11.1–4 (pp. 16–17).

Wir haben momentan hier sehr viel zu tun.
We are very busy here at the moment.

Wo seid ihr gerade?
Where are you at the moment/just now?

 See 81.2 (p. 287) on another use of gerade.
Jetzt/Nun geht es aufwärts mit der Wirtschaft.
The economy is picking up now.

(b) ‘Until now’ is rendered by bis jetzt/bisher:

Bis jetzt gibt es keine Cholera in dem Lager.
Until now there has been no cholera in the camp.

 See 81.7 (p. 290) for ways to express ‘not yet’; and 34.2d (p. 71) for this use of the
present tense.

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