# today
## 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: /təˈdeɪ/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /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

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) (gam$^1$ jat$^6$)
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 (teči)
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 (täči)
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: 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
Nǀuu: ǁʻûi a, ǁʻûiʻa
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), ادیہ (adya), امروز (imroz)
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 :

### 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) 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise of 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

* better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
* here today, gone tomorrow
* jam today
* never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
* today is a good day to die
* today's lucky 10,000
* today's lucky ten thousand
* today we are all
* today years old
* what date is it today
* what day is it today
* yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
* yesterday-today-tomorrow

#### Translations

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) (gam$^1$ jat$^6$), 今天 (gam$^1$ tin$^1$)
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 :
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### 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, →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.

### See also

* nowadays
* hodiernal
* hodiernally
* yesterday
* tomorrow night
* tonight
* last night
* nudiustertian
* hesternal
* hesternally

### 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: /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.