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”).

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)
• 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