► 名詞
今日 [(1)きょう] meaning: today rank: 1
☆ 今日は日曜日だ ⇨ Today is Sunday (☛ Never means “nowadays”)
今日 [(1)こんにち] [liter] meaning: today rank: 2
☆ 今日の若者 ⇨ Today’s youth (☛ Always means “recent time”)
More examples:
- 今日だけは特別に門限が無い ⇨ Today is an exception and there is no curfew
- 今日学校で抜き打ちテストがあった ⇨ There was a surprise, unannounced, exam at school today
- 今日はちょっとお洒落をした ⇨ I dressed up a little today
- 今日は妙に電車が空いている ⇨ Today the trains are not crowded for some reason
- 今日は水曜（日）だ ⇨ Today is Wednesday
- 今日デパートに買い物に行った ⇨ I went to a department store for shopping
- 今日はどうもしんどい ⇨ I am tired today somehow
- 今日が御通夜で明日が御葬式です ⇨ The vigil is today and the funeral is tomorrow
- 今日はこれくらいにして置こう ⇨ Let’s call it the day with this much work done
- 今日はこれで終わりにしよう ⇨ Let’s call it the end, a day, today
- 今日はしばれる ⇨ It’s extremely cold today
- 今日はこのくらいにしておこう ⇨ This much is enough for today
- 入場券は今日から前売りされる ⇨ The tickets will be on sale today
- 今日と言う今日は決着を付けよう ⇨ Let’s settle this once and for all this very day
- それを今日中にやるなんてとても無理だ ⇨ There is no way we could get it done today