high time (state of extreme urgency after having delayed something important for almost too long)
çekim: tamlayan höchster Eisenbahn
köken: Literally, “highest train”. Apparently from a malapropism used in a 1847 theater play by Adolf Glassbrenner.
aile: allerhöchste Eisenbahn
🔊 Sind noch Punkte offen, ist es jetzt "höchste Eisenbahn" zu vereinbaren, wie damit weiterverfahren werden soll.
finally; in the end · at last, finally · in fact; indeed
eş: à la fin, finalement, bref, enfin bref
köken: Univerbation of en + fin. Literally, “in the end”.
🔊 Near-synonyms: du moins (“at least”), néanmoins, plutôt (“rather”), toutefois
🔊 Il sait ce qu'il doit faire, enfin c'est ce que j'espère.
🔊 Jusqu'ici tout va bien, enfin ça allait.
at last; finally · in the end · to the last
aile: al fin y al cabo
at last, finally
köken: From Middle Dutch eindelijc, variant of endelijc. Equivalent to einde + -lijk.
about time (it is far past the desired time)
indefinite genitive singular of dag
🔊 Nu är det dags.
🔊 Hur dags avgår mitt flyg?
🔊 Är det dags att komma nu?
soon
köken: Lexicalization of hamar + -os + -an (“-ly”, deadjectival adverb-forming suffix).
about time
🔊 Det er på tide at få gjort noget ved det.
high time, about time
köken: hen (“old”) + pryd (“time”) with soft mutation
🔊 Mae’n hen bryd iddi hi fynd adre.
due time, high time, about time
çekim: çoğul mithidí · tamlayan mithide
köken: From Middle Irish mithid, alteration of Old Irish mithig. The final /d/ of the modern form may be due to assimilation to the following preposition do.
🔊 Is mithid dom imeacht.
🔊 Is mithid liom imeacht.