today

See also: to-day

English

Alternative forms

to-day (archaic), to day (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English today, to-daie, todæig, from Old English tōdæġ, tō dæġe (“today”, literally “on [the/this] day, [this] day forward”), equivalent to to +‎ day. Compare Saterland Frisian däälich (“today”), Dutch vandaag (“today”), Old Saxon hindag (“today”, literally “[this] day forward”), German Low German vandage, vandaag (“today”), Swedish i dag, idag (“today”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təˈdeɪ/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /təˈdeɪ/, [tʰəˈdeɪ], /tʊˈdeɪ/, [tʰʊˈdeɪ], [tʰʉɾeɪː]
Audio (General American): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪ
Hyphenation: to‧day

Adverb

today (not comparable)

On the current day or date.
I want this done today.

Today, my brother went to the shops.
In the current era; nowadays; these days.
In the 1500s, people had to do things by hand, but today we have electric can openers.
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
  Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
(informal) The day of a recurring cycle or event which is currently happening.
We used to prepare everything today, but now we split it over two days.

Translations

on the current day

Abkhaz: иахьа (jaxʲa)
Adyghe: непэ (nepɛ), мы (mə)
Afrikaans: vandag (af)
Ainu: タント (tanto)
Albanian: sot (sq)
Alviri-Vidari:
Vidari: آرو (āru)
Amharic: ዛሬ (zare)
Arabic: الْيَوْمَ (al-yawma)
Egyptian Arabic: النهارده (en-nɑhɑ́r-dɑ)

Gulf Arabic: اليوم (il-yōm)

Hijazi Arabic: اليوم (al-yōm)

Moroccan Arabic: اليوم (el-yūma, el-yūm)

South Levantine Arabic: اليوم (il-yōm)
Aragonese: hue (an)
Argobba: ሁማ (humā)
Armenian: այսօր (hy) (aysōr)
Aromanian: adzã (roa-rup), asãndzã
Assamese: আজি (azi)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܕܝܘܡ (ɛdjawm)
Asturian: güei (ast)
Atayal: soni', kira'
Avar: жакъа (žaqxʼa)
Azerbaijani: bugün (az)
Bashkir: бөгөн (bögön)
Basque: gaur (eu), egun (eu)
Belarusian: сёння (sjónnja), сяго́ння (sjahónnja)
Bengali: আজ (bn) (aj)
Bhojpuri: आजु (āju)
Bikol Central: ngunyan (bcl)
Breton: hiziv (br)
Bulgarian: днес (bg) (dnes), дне́ска (bg) (dnéska)
Burmese: ယနေ့ (my) (ya.ne.), ယခုနေ့ (my) (ya.hku.ne.), ဒီနေ့ (dine.)
Buryat: мүнөө (münöö)
Carpathian Rusyn: днесь (dnesʹ), ны́нї (nŷ́nji)
Catalan: avui (ca)
Cebuano: karon
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⵙⴰ (assa)
Central Dusun: baino
Chechen: тахана (taxana)
Cherokee: ᎪᎯᎢᎦ (gohiiga)
Chichewa: lero
Chinese:
Cantonese: 今日 (yue) (gam¹ jat⁶)

Dungan: җинтян (žinti͡an), җир (žir), җиргә (žirgə), җер (ži͡ər), җергә (ži͡ərgə)

Eastern Min: 今旦 (gĭng-dáng), 今旦日 (gĭng-dáng-nĭk)

Hakka: 今晡日 (kîm-pû-ngit)

Hokkien: 今仔日 (zh-min-nan) (kin-á-ji̍t/kin-á-li̍t)

Mandarin: 今天 (zh), 今日 (zh) (jīnrì), 今兒 / 今儿 (zh) (jīnr), 今兒個 / 今儿个 (zh) (jīnrgè) (dialectal)

Wu: 今朝
Choctaw: himak nitak
Chukchi: игыр (igyr)
Coptic: ⲡⲟⲟⲩ (poou)
Cornish: hedhyw
Corsican: oghje (co)
Cree: ᐊᓄᐦᐨ (anohc)
Crimean Tatar: bugün
Crow: baapéesh
Czech: dnes (cs)
Dakota: aƞpetu de
Dalmatian: vai, vuai
Danish: i dag (da), idag (former spelling)
Dhivehi: މިއަދު (miadu)
Dhuwal: gaathura
Dolgan: бүгүн (bügün)
Dutch: vandaag (nl)
Dzongkha: ད་རིས (da ris)
Eastern Arrernte: lyete
Egyptian:

(mjn)
Elfdalian: i dag
Emilian: incû
Erzya: течи (ťeči)
Esperanto: hodiaŭ (eo)
Estonian: täna (et)
Evenki: эсӣ-тырга (əsī-tirga)
Faliscan: foied
Faroese: í dag
Fijian: nikua (fj)
Finnish: tänään (fi)
Franco-Provençal: houê
French: aujourd’hui (fr)
Friulian: vuê
Galician: hoxe (gl)
Gallo: anoet
Gamilaraay: yilaathu
Ge'ez: ዮም (yom)
Georgian: დღეს (dɣes)
German: heute (de)
Alemannic German: heit, hit, hüt

Bavarian: haid, haint
Gilbertese: te bong aei
Greek: σήμερα (el) (símera)
Ancient: σήμερον (sḗmeron), τήμερον (tḗmeron) (Attic)

Doric: σάμερον (sámeron)
Greenlandic: ullumi
Guaraní: ange (gn), ko árape
Gujarati: આજે (āje)
Haitian Creole: jodi a
Hausa: yau (ha)
Hawaiian: kēia lā
Hebrew: הַיּוֹם (hayóm), כיום (kayóm)
Higaonon: iman
Hindi: आज (hi) (āj), यौम (yaum), अद्य (hi) (adya)
Hopi: taava, pu'
Hungarian: ma (hu)
Hunsrik: heit
Icelandic: í dag (is)
Ido: hodie (io), cadie (io)
Igbo: taa (ig)
Indonesian: hari ini (id)
Ingrian: tänäpään
Ingush: тахан (taxan)
Interlingua: hodie (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐅᓪᓗᒥ (ollomi)
Inupiaq: uvlupak, uvluvak
Irish: inniu (ga)
Old Irish: indiu
Italian: oggi (it)
Jambi Malay: hari iko
Japanese: 今日 (ja) (きょう, kyō), 本日 (ja) (ほんじつ, honjitsu)
Javanese: ꦢꦶꦤꦲꦶꦏꦶ (dina iki) (low), ꦢꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ꦥꦸꦤꦶꦏ (dinten punika) (high)
Central Javanese: ꦢꦶꦤꦏꦶꦪꦶ (dina kiyi) (low), ꦢꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ꦩꦼꦤꦶꦏ (dinten menika) (high)

Western Javanese: ꦢꦶꦤꦏꦪꦺ (dina kiyè) (low), ꦢꦶꦤꦏꦶꦲꦼꦤ꧀ (dina kien) (low)
Jeju: 오널 (oneol)
Jingpho: daini
K'iche': kamik
Kaingang: ũri
Kalmyk: эндр (endr)
Kannada: ಇಂದು (kn) (indu)
Kapampangan: ngeni
Karelian: tänäpäi
Kashmiri: اَز (ks) (az)
Kashubian: dzysô
Kazakh: бүгін (bügın)
Khakas: пӱӱн (püün)
Khmer: ថ្ងៃនេះ (thngay nih)
Kikuyu: ũmũthĩ
Komi-Zyrian: талун (talun)
Kongo: bubu
Konkani: aiz
Korean: 오늘 (ko) (oneul), 금일(今日) (ko) (geumil) (formal)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئەمرۆ (emro)

Northern Kurdish: îro (ku)
Kyrgyz: бүгүн (ky) (bügün)
Ladin:
badiot: incö

fascian: anché

gherdëina: ncuei
Lakota: anpetu ki le
Lao: ມື້ນີ້ (lo) (mư̄ nī)
Latin: hodie (la)
Latvian: šodien
Laz: ანდღა (andğa)
Ligurian: ancheu
Limburgish: huui, vandaag (li)
Lingala: lelo
Lithuanian: šiandien (lt)
Livonian: tämpõ
Lombard: incö, incœu (lmo)
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: vandäge

German Low German: hüüt, vondaag
Luganda: leero
Luhya: luno
Luo: kawuono
Luxembourgish: haut (lb)
Macanese: hoze
Macedonian: денес (denes)
Malagasy: anio (mg), androany (mg)
Tsimihety: aniany (mg)
Malay: hari ini (ms)
Malayalam: ഇന്ന് (ml) (innŭ), പുകയില (ml) (pukayila)
Maltese: illum
Manchu: ᡝᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ (enenggi)
Manipuri: ꯉꯁꯤ (mni) (ngasi)
Manx: jiu
Maori: tēnei rā
Mapudungun: faciantv
Marathi: आज (āja)
Marshallese: rainin, rahyinyin
Minangkabau: hari iko
Mirandese: hoije
Mòcheno: hait
Mohawk: ón:wa’k
Moksha: тячи (ťači)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өнөөдөр (mn) (önöödör)

Mongolian: ᠥᠨᠦᠳᠦᠷ (önüdür)
Nahuatl: axkan, axan (nah)
Nauruan: ngabumine
Navajo: díí jį́
Neapolitan: ogge, oie
Nepali: आज (ne) (āja)
Norman: aniet (Jersey), annyi (continental Normandy), ogniet (Guernsey)
North Frisian: diling, deling (Sylt)
Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} тыхо̄тал (tyhōtal)
Northern Ohlone: ne ṭuuxi
Northern Sami: odne
Norwegian:
Bokmål: i dag (no), idag (no) (Riksmål)

Nynorsk: i dag
Nuosu: ꀃꑍ (ip nyip)
Nupe: yínna
Occitan: uèi (oc)
Odia: ଆଜି (āji)
Ojibwe: noongom
Okinawan: ちゅー (chū)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ)
Old East Slavic: сего дьне (sego dĭne), дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ)
Old English: tōdæġ
Old Prussian: šandēinan
Oromo: har’a
Ossetian: абон (abon)
Ottoman Turkish: الیوم (elyevm), بوگون (bugün)
Pannonian Rusyn: нєшка (nješka), днєш (dnješ) (obsolete)
Papiamentu: awé
Pashto: نن ورځ (nan wraź)
Pattani Malay: aghi nih, aghi ning
Persian:
Dari: اِمْروز (imrōz)

Iranian Persian: اِمْروز (emruz)
Piedmontese: ancheuj
Pipil: ashan
Pitjantjatjara: walykunya
Polish: dzisiaj (pl), dziś (pl)
Portuguese: hoje (pt)
Punjabi: ਅੱਜ (pa) (ajja)
Q'eqchi: anaqwan, hoon
Quechua: kunan pacha
Rapa Nui: ’arīnā
Rohingya: aijja
Romagnol: incù
Romani: avdies
Romanian: astăzi (ro), azi (ro)
Romansch: oz
Russian: сего́дня (ru) (sevódnja)
Samoan: aso nei
Sanskrit: अद्य (sa) (adya)
Sarawak Malay: hari tok
Sardinian:
Campidanese: oi
Saterland Frisian: däälich
Scots: the day
Scottish Gaelic: an-diugh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: да̀нас

Roman: dànas (sh)
Shona: nhasi
Sicilian: ùoggi, oggi (scn), oji (scn)
Sindhi: اَڄُ (sd) (aju)
Sinhalese: අද (si) (ada)
Slovak: dnes (sk)
Slovene: dánes (sl)
Somali: maanta (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: źinsa

Upper Sorbian: dźensa (hsb)
Sotho: kajeno (st)
Southern Altai: бӱгӱн (bügün)
Southern Ohlone: naha
Spanish: hoy (es)
Sundanese: ᮕᮧᮆ ᮃᮚᮩᮔ (poé ayeuna) (low), ᮕᮧᮆ ᮄᮉ (poé ieu) (low), ᮓᮤᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ ᮃᮚᮩᮔ (dinten ayeuna) (high), ᮓᮤᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ ᮄᮉ (dinten ieu) (high)
Svan: ლა̈დი (lädi)
Swahili: leo (sw)
Swedish: idag (sv), i dag (sv)
Sylheti: ꠀꠁꠎ (aiz)
Tabasaran: гъи (ġi)
Tagalog: ngayon (tl)
Tahitian: i teie tau, i teie nei mahana
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: имрӯз (tg) (imrüz)
Talysh: imruj
Asalemi: ام روج (əm ruj), ام روز (əm ruz), امروج (əmruj), امروز (əmruz)
Tamil: இன்று (ta) (iṉṟu)
Tarantino: ôsce
Tat: umuruz
Tatar: бүген (bügen)
Telugu: నేడు (te) (nēḍu)
Terengganu Malay: aghi ning, aghai naing
Thai: วันนี้ (wan-níi)
Tibetan: ད་རིང (da ring)
Tigrinya: ሎሚ (ti) (lomi)
Tocharian B: ñerwe
Tongan: ‘aho ni
Tupinambá: (past) oîeí, (future) kori
Turkish: bugün (tr)
Turkmen: bugün, şu gün
Tuvan: бөгүн (bögün)
Udmurt: туннэ (tunne)
Ukrainian: сього́дні (uk) (sʹohódni), ни́ні (nýni)
Urdu: آج (ur) (āj)
Uyghur: بۈگۈن (ug) (bügün)
Uzbek: bugun (uz)
Venetan: ancùo
Vietnamese: hôm nay (vi) (𣋚𠉞), bữa nay (𣇜𠉞)
Volapük: adelo (vo)
Walloon: ouy (wa), enute (wa), ådjourdu (wa)
Warlpiri: jalangu
Welsh: heddiw
West Frisian: hjoed (fy)
White Hmong: hnub no
Wiradjuri: dhalang, ngidyigalila
Woiwurrung: yaalingbu
Wolof: tey (wo)
Xhosa: namhlanje
Yagnobi: инур (inur)
Yakut: бүгүн (bügün)
Yiddish: הײַנט (haynt)
Yoruba: lónìí, lénìí
Yup'ik: unuamek
Zazaki: noroz, ewro (diq)
Zhuang: ngoenzneix
Zulu: namhlanje

nowadays — see also nowadays,‎ these days

Afrikaans: deesdae (af)
Andi: желъал (želˢal)
Arabic: حَاضِر (ḥāḍir)
Egyptian Arabic: الأيام دي (el-ayyām di)

Moroccan Arabic: هاد الإيام (hād el-ʔiyyām), هاد الوقت (hād el-waqt), هاد الساعة (hād es-sāʕa)
Armenian: այսօր (hy) (aysōr)
Avar: жакъа (žaqxʼa)
Bashkir: бөгөн (bögön)
Basque: gaur egun (eu)
Breton: bremañ (br), hiziv an deiz
Bulgarian: сега́ (bg) (segá)
Catalan: avui en dia, avui dia
Cebuano: karon, karong panahon
Chinese:
Mandarin: 現代 / 现代 (zh) (xiàndài)
Czech: dnes (cs), v dnešní době
Danish: i dag (da), i vore dage (da)
Dutch: tegenwoordig (nl), vandaag de dag, heden ten dage (nl), vandaag (nl)
Esperanto: nuntempe (eo)
Estonian: täna (et)
Finnish: nykyisin (fi), nykyään (fi)
French: de nos jours (fr), actuellement (fr)
Galician: hoxe en día (gl)
Georgian: დღესდღეობით (dɣesdɣeobit), ამჟამად (amžamad)
German: heutzutage (de)
Greek: σήμερα (el) (símera)
Hebrew: הַיּוֹם (hayóm)
Hungarian: ma (hu), manapság (hu), napjainkban (hu)
Indonesian: masa sekarang, dewasa ini
Interlingua: hodie (ia), actualmente
Irish: inniu (ga)
Italian: oggi (it), oggigiorno (it), attualmente (it)
Japanese: 今日 (ja) (こんにち, konnichi)
Korean: 오늘날 (ko) (oneullal)
Lakota: apetu ki le
Latin: hodie (la), hoc die
Latvian: šodien
Luxembourgish: hautdesdaags
Macedonian: се́га (séga), де́нес (dénes)
Maltese: illum il-ġurnata
Navajo: dííshjį́
Occitan: uèi (oc)
Ojibwe: noongom
Polish: w dzisiejszych czasach
Portuguese: hoje (pt), hoje em dia (pt), atualmente (pt)
Romanian: astăzi (ro), ziua de azi, acum (ro)
Russian: сего́дня (ru) (sevódnja), в настоя́щее вре́мя (v nastojáščeje vrémja), тепе́рь (ru) (tepérʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: са̀дашњица, да̀нашњица, да̀нас, данданас

Roman: sàdašnjica (sh), dànašnjica (sh), dànas (sh), dandanas (sh)
Sindhi: اَڄُ (sd) m (ajju)
Slovak: dnes (sk)
Slovene: dánes (sl), dándánes
Spanish: hoy (es), hoy en día, hoy día (es), actualmente (es)
Swedish: idag (sv), nu för tiden (sv), nuförtiden (sv) (alternative spelling)
Tagalog: ngayon (tl)
Thai: วันนี้ (wan-níi), ตอนนี้ (dtɔɔn-níi), ปัจจุบัน (th) (bpàt-jù-ban)
Turkish: bugün (tr), günümüz, günümüzde
Vietnamese: ngày nay (vi)
Volapük: nutimo (vo)
West Frisian: hjoed de dei, no
Yiddish: הײַנט (haynt)

Noun

today (plural todays)

A current day or date.
Synonyms: current day, this day

Today is the day we'll fix this once and for all.

The youth of today have never known what life is like without a cell phone.
- 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:
  Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
(informal or meteorology) From approximately 6am to 6pm on the current day.
The present time period; nowadays.

Usage notes

Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are these days and nowadays.

Derived terms

Translations

today (noun)

Afrikaans: vandag (af)
Ainu: タント (tanto)
Alemannic German: heit, hit, hüt
Arabic: الْيَوْم (al-yawm)
Egyptian Arabic: النهرده (ennɑhɑ́rdɑ)

Moroccan Arabic: اليوم m (el-yūma, el-yūm), هاد النهار (hād en-nhār)
Armenian: այսօր (hy) (aysōr)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܕܝܘܡ
Asturian: güei (ast) m
Basque: gaur (eu)
Bulgarian: днес (bg) (dnes), дне́ска (bg) (dnéska)
Catalan: avui (ca), hui (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 今日 (yue) (gam¹ jat⁶), 今天 (gam¹ tin¹)

Hakka: 今晡日 (kîm-pû-ngit)

Hokkien: 今仔日 (zh-min-nan) (kin-á-ji̍t, kin-á-li̍t)

Mandarin: 今天 (zh) (jīntiān), 今日 (zh) (jīnrì)
Czech: dnešek (cs) m
Danish: i dag (da)
Dutch: vandaag (nl)
Egyptian:

(mjn m)
Esperanto: hodiaŭ (eo), hodiaŭo
Estonian: täna (et)
Finnish: tämä päivä (fi) (this day), kuluva päivä
French: aujourd’hui (fr) m
Galician: hoxe (gl)
Georgian: დღეს (dɣes)
German: Heute (de)
Greek: σήμερα (el) (símera)
Guaraní: ko ára
Gujarati: આજ (gu) f (āja)
Hebrew: הַיּוֹם (hayóm)
Hindi: आज (hi) m (āj)
Hungarian: a mai nap, (mostly in set phrases, otherwise literary) ma (hu)
Ido: hodie (io)
Ifè: òní
Igala: èñíni
Indonesian: hari ini
Interlingua: hodie (ia)
Irish: an lá inniu
Italian: oggi (it)
Japanese: 今日 (ja) (きょう, kyō)
Javanese: ꦢꦶꦤꦲꦶꦏꦶ (dina iki) (low), ꦢꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ꦥꦸꦤꦶꦏ (dinten punika) (high)
Central Javanese: ꦢꦶꦤꦏꦶꦪꦶ (dina kiyi) (low), ꦢꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ꦩꦼꦤꦶꦏ (dinten menika) (high)

Western Javanese: ꦢꦶꦤꦏꦪꦺ (dina kiyè) (low), ꦢꦶꦤꦏꦶꦲꦼꦤ꧀ (dina kien) (low)
Jeju: 오널 (oneol)
Jingpho: daini
Kabuverdianu: oji
Kazakh: бүгінгі күн (bügıñı kün)
Kikuyu: ũmũthĩ class 14
Korean: 오늘 (ko) (oneul), 금일(今日) (ko) (geumil) (formal)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئەمرۆ (emro)

Northern Kurdish: îro (ku) f
Lakota: anpetu ki le
Lao: ມື້ນີ້ (lo) (mư̄ nī)
Latin: hodie (la), hic diēs
Latvian: šodiena f
Lithuanian: šiandiena f
Macedonian: денес (denes)
Manchu: ᡝᠨᡝᠨᡤᡤᡳ (enenggi)
Marathi: आज m (āj), आजचा दिवस m (ājcā divas)
Navajo: díí jį́, jį́į́dą́ą́ʼ
Northern Sami: otná
Norwegian:
Bokmål: i dag (no)

Nynorsk: i dag
Nupe: yínna
Occitan: ancuei (oc)
Ojibwe: noongom
Olukumi: òní
Ottoman Turkish: بوگون (bugün)
Papiamentu: awe
Persian: امروز (fa) (emruz)
Polish: dzisiaj (pl), dziś (pl)
Portuguese: hoje (pt)
Romanian: astăzi (ro), azi (ro)
Russian: сего́дня (ru) (sevódnja), сего́дняшний день m (sevódnjašnij denʹ)
Sardinian: oi (Campidanese)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: да̀нас

Roman: dànas (sh)
Sindhi: اَڄُ (sd) (ajju)
Slovak: dnešok
Slovene: dánes (sl), današnji dan m
Spanish: hoy (es) m, hoy día (es) m
Sundanese: ᮕᮧᮆ ᮃᮚᮩᮔ (poé ayeuna) (low), ᮕᮧᮆ ᮄᮉ (poé ieu) (low), ᮓᮤᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ ᮃᮚᮩᮔ (dinten ayeuna) (high), ᮓᮤᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ ᮄᮉ (dinten ieu) (high)
Swedish: idag (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠀꠁꠎ (aiz)
Tagalog: ngayon (tl)
Tarantino: ôsce
Thai: วันนี้ (wan-níi)
Tibetan: ད་རིང (da ring)
Tupinambá: kó 'ara
Turkish: bugün (tr)
Tuvan: бо хүн (bo xün)
Ukrainian: сього́дні (uk) (sʹohódni)
Urdu: امروز (irmoz)
Vietnamese: bữa nay, hôm nay (vi)
Volapük: adel (vo)
Welsh: heddiw
West Frisian: hjoed (fy)
Yakut: бүгүн (bügün), бүгүҥҥү күн (bügüññü kün)
Yiddish: הײַנט (haynt)
Yoruba: òní, èní
Zhuang: ngoenzneix

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Sinhalese: ^{(please verify)} අද (si) (ada)

Adjective

today (not comparable)

(informal) Current; up to date.
Synonym: now
- 1965, Tom Wolfe, quoting Phil Spector, “The First Tycoon of Teen”, in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 67:
  Actually, it's more like the blues. It's pop blues. I feel it's very American. It's very today. It's what people respond to today.
- 1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  […] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.

Anagrams

toady

Middle English

Alternative forms

todæg, todæig, todai, todaie, todæi, todei, tedai, tedei, todaȝȝ

Etymology

From Old English tōdæġ, equivalent to to- +‎ day.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /toːˈdɛi̯/, /tɔˈdɛi̯/, /tuˈdɛi̯/

Adverb

today

On the current day.
On this date in past years.
(used substantively) The current day.

Descendants

English: today
Yola: to-die, to die

References

“todai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2018.