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Italian

oggigiorno

/od.dʒiˈdʒor.no/adverbB2
Extended vocabulary · Vocabulary rank 16,091

Meaning

nowadays, today

  • At the present time, in contrast with the past; nowadays.

In a sentence

Oggigiorno quasi tutti possiedono uno smartphone con connessione a internet.

Nowadays almost everyone owns a smartphone with an internet connection.

È ancora necessario studiare il latino nei licei oggigiorno?

Is it still necessary to study Latin in high schools nowadays?

Oggigiorno non è facile trovare un impiego stabile senza esperienza pregressa.

Nowadays it is not easy to find a steady job without prior experience.

Usage notes

  • Interchangeable with 'al giorno d'oggi'; both are common in speech and formal writing.
  • Spelled as a single word with doubled 'g' due to syntactic doubling.

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