Noch tells us that it is raining now and it was raining earlier and that is exactly what still does. Germans picked jetzt as their common, standard now and noch evolved similar to the English yet in that it lost its “now-feel”, its time feel and makes implications instead.īased on the original noch, this literally means And in German it happened kind of the other way around. So there were those two options for now in old Germanic, English picked nowto do the daily time-business and used yet more freely. Here, the yetimplies that there is still work going on and it will be finished at some point.
Here, it kind of let’s us now that we’re not talking about one specific occasion but about life in general and it implies that the person might want to go. In English, they used now to do the normal time-business, while yet slowly changed…īut over the years, yet lost more and more of its “now-essity” and started to … kind of wander… make implications and such. J etzt is related to the English word yet,so back in the olden days there basically existed two ways to indicate the current point in time… the now-way and the yet-way. There is also nun but jetzt is sharper, pointier. But we can actually ignore that for a second and just talk about just talk about now. So… noch is essentially now with idea of tooor also attached to it. Or that other annoying German word that rhymes with noch ) In the Germanic languages this ending has pretty much disappeared but there are still leftovers of it.
So this is kind of how the ending worked. I can’t speak Latin but I’m very good at copying Latin from Wiktionary. The ending used to be just -h 1000 years ago and it comes from the dazzlingly ancient Indo-European *-kʷe which meant… and.Īn ending that means and? Yes, it sounds strange but Latin for instance made wide use of it.
Noch comes from the Germanic nu and it is essentially now with an ending. For noch, it is not that easy to say what it is talking about. What I mean is this… for a word like bald,for example, we can say that it talks about time. “I could say the same about you, you looser…” One problem with noch is that it is hard to grasp what noch is actually talking about… what? Oh, that… haha… I did do 10 but those were nerd push ups… you count those in binary. I’ll just do 10 motivational push-ups real quick.
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