Frontmatter -- Contents -- The family of NU and NÅ across the languages of Europe and beyond: Structure, function, and history -- The discourse marker nu in Russian conversation -- The Polish multifunctional particle no -- The particle no in Polish talk-in-interaction -- Functions of a particle in two European minority languages: Nu/no in Yiddish and Romani -- Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle from synchronic and diachronic perspectives -- Estonian no(o)(h) in turns and sequences: Families of function -- The Finnish particle no -- The word ny(t) as an adverb and a particle in Finnish -- Nu(n) in Standard German: Its functions as a temporal adverbial, as an adverbial structuring discourse, and as a modal particle and discourse marker -- Nu(n) in the Upper Saxonian Vernacular of German -- The positionally sensitive workings of the Dutch particle nou -- Nú in Icelandic conversation -- Nå in Swedish conversation -- The Swedish nu: A historical perspective -- Index