there is nothing new under the sun

English

Alternative forms

• nothing new under the sun

Etymology

Calque of Latin nihil sub sōle novum, itself a calque from the Hebrew אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ (en kol chadásh táchat hashámesh, “there is nothing new under the sun”) found in Ecclesiastes 1:9.

Proverb

there is nothing new under the sun

1. There is nothing truly novel in existence; every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.

Translations

there is nothing new

• Arabic: فليس تحت الشمس جديد
• Armenian: արևի տակ ոչ մի նոր բան չկա (arewi tak očʻ mi nor ban čʻka)
• Basque: ezer berririk eguzkiaren azpian
• Bulgarian: нищо ново под слънцето (ništo novo pod slǎnceto)
• Catalan: no hi ha res de nou sota el sol
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 日光之下並無新事 / 日光之下并无新事 (jat⁶ gwong¹ zi¹ haa⁶ bing⁶ mou⁴ san¹ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 日光之下並無新事 / 日光之下并无新事 (rìguāng zhī xià bìng wú xīn shì)

• Czech: nic nového pod sluncem
• Danish: intet nyt under solen
• Dutch: niets nieuws onder de zon
• Esperanto: nenio nova sub la suno
• Finnish: ei mitään uutta auringon alla, ei uutta auringon alla
• French: rien de nouveau sous le soleil (fr)
• Galician: nada novo baixo o sol
• Georgian: არაფერია მზის ქვეშ ახალი (araperia mzis kveš axali)
• German: nichts Neues unter der Sonne
• Greek: ουδέν καινόν υπό τον ήλιον (oudén kainón ypó ton ílion)

  Ancient: οὐκ ἔστι πᾶν πρόσφατον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον (ouk ésti pân prósphaton hupò tòn hḗlion)

• Hebrew: אין כל חדש תחת השמש (he), אין חדש תחת השמש (he)
• Hungarian: nincs új a nap alatt
• Italian: niente di nuovo sotto il sole
• Japanese: 日の下に新しきものなし (hi no shita ni atarashiki mono nashi)
• Korean: 하늘 아래 새로운 것은 없다 (haneul arae saeroun geoseun eopda), 세상에 새로운 것이라고는 없다 (sesang'e saeroun geosiragoneun eopda)
• Latin: nihil sub sole novum, nihil sub sole novi
• Latvian: tas nav nekas jauns
• Lithuanian: nieko naujo po saule
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: intet nytt under solen

  Nynorsk: ingenting nytt under sola

• Persian: هیچ چیز جدیدی در زیر خورشید نیست
• Polish: nic nowego pod słońcem
• Portuguese: nada de novo sob o sol, nada de novo debaixo do sol
• Romanian: nimic nou sub soare
• Russian: ничто не ново под луной (ništo ne novo pod lunoj)
• Serbo-Croatian: nema ništa novo pod suncem, нема ништа ново под сунцем
• Slovak: nič nové pod slnkom
• Slovene: nič novega pod soncem
• Spanish: nada nuevo bajo el sol
• Swedish: inget nytt under solen
• Turkish: güneşin altında yeni bir şey yok
• Ukrainian: нічого нового під сонцем (ničoho novoho pid soncem)
• Welsh: dim byd newydd dan yr haul

See also

• everything old is new again
• nothing is said that has not been said before
• SSDD
• the more things change, the more they stay the same