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Compare Dutch nu en dan, West Frisian no en dan.
now and then (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.
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.
(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), co jakiś czas
- 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
- West Frisian: no en dan, út en troch
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