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bald

adv · /balt/ ·
Etymology

From Middle High German balde, from Old High German baldo, adverb of bald, pald, from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with Dutch boud, English bold.

Translation

  1. soon (near in time)

    Bald ist der Urlaub vorbei.

    The vacation will soon be over.

  2. anon source:wikdict-en-de-stardict
  3. almost (of a changing value that is predicted to reach said number soon)

    Mit bald 80 Jahren ist mein Vater noch auf Apfelbäume geklettert.

    At almost 80 years, my father still used to climb on apple trees.

  4. indicates a rapid alternation of states; now ..., now ...; sometimes ..., sometimes ... repeated

    bald Regen und bald Sonnenschein

    now rain, now shine

    Zwischen den Reitern drängten sich Fußgänger; bald im einfachen Flanellhemd und den riemengegürteten Hosen des Westens, bald in eleganten Anzügen und tadelloser weißer Wäsche.

    The German prankster in America

bald

adj ·

Translation

  1. anon source:freedict-eng-deu-dictd
  2. soon; before long; erelong ; anon ; presently ; by and by source:dictcc-tuchemnitz-de-en