Kana: いま

now

Example sentence

今、とても忙しいです。

いま、とてもいそがしいです。

I am very busy now.

What 今 means

(いま) is a Japanese word meaning “now”. It belongs to the Time, Weather & Colors topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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