aujourd'hui
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French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- auj. (abbreviation)
- ajourd’hui, àjourd’hui (archaic outside Louisiana, Cajun)
- au jour d’hui, au-jour-d’hui, aujour-d’hui (archaic to obsolete)
- aujourdhui, aujourdui (obsolete or reformist)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French auiourd'huy; univerbation of au + jour + de + hui, literally “on the day of today”; since hui comes from Latin hodie, the phrase literally means "on the day of this day".
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /o.ʒuʁ.d‿ɥi/, (sometimes proscribed) /o.ʒɔʁ.d‿ɥi/
- IPA(key): (Louisiana) /o.ʒɔ(ɾ).d‿ɥɪ/, /a.ʒɔ(ɾ).d‿ɥi/
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Adverb[edit]
aujourd’hui
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Réunion Creole French: zordi, jordu, zordu
- Saint Dominican Creole French: jordy
- Haitian Creole: jodi a
Noun[edit]
aujourd’hui m (uncountable)
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “aujourd'hui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.