► 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:
- 今日は余り食べる気がしない ⇨ I don’t want to eat much, don’t have appetite, today
- 今日では殆ど全ての車にエアコンが装備されている ⇨ Today almost all cars are equipped with air conditioners
- 交渉は今日が山場だ ⇨ Today is the critical part of the negotiation
- 今日はもうお引取り下さい ⇨ Please leave for today
- 今日はスパゲッティが食べたい ⇨ I want to eat spaghetti today
- 彼は今日仕事を辞めたと事も無げに言った ⇨ He said he’d quit his job today matter-of-factly, like no big deal
- 今日は火曜（日）だ ⇨ Today is Tuesday
- 今日は！ ⇨ Good afternoon!
- 彼は今日は妙に上機嫌だね ⇨ He is in really good mood somehow today
- 今日は天気が悪い ⇨ The weather is bad today
- 今日はしばれる ⇨ It’s extremely cold today
- 良い子の皆さん今日は ⇨ Hello, you good kids!
- 仕事を今日中に仕上げなくてはいけない ⇨ I have to get my work done today
- この仕事を今日中に終えるのはしんどい ⇨ It is difficult to finish this work today
- 今日はてっきり木曜日だと思っていた ⇨ I certainly believed (erroneously) that today was Thursday