aujourd'hui

See also: aujour-d'hui

French

Alternative forms

• 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

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

• 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

aujourd’hui

1. today
2. nowadays

   Synonyms: à cette heure, actuellement, en ce moment, maintenant, de nos jours

Coordinate terms

Dates relative to today in French (layout · text)
	–3	–2	–1	0	+1	+2	+3
direct speech	three days ago	two days ago	yesterday	today	tomorrow	in two days	in three days
	avant-avant-hier	avant-hier	hier	aujourd’hui	demain	après-demain	après-après-demain
reported speech	three days before, three days earlier	two days before, two days earlier	the day before	on that day	the next day	two days later	three days later
	trois jours plus tôt	l’avant-veille	la veille	ce jour-là	le lendemain	le surlendemain	trois jours plus tard

Derived terms

• au jour d’aujourd’hui

Descendants

• Réunion Creole French: zordi, jordu, zordu
• Saint Dominican Creole French: jordy
  • Haitian Creole: jodi a

Further reading

• “aujourd'hui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.