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今しも (いましも, imashimo) Japanese meaning: just now | Kotomora
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Related words 今いま 今 is the general word for 'now'; 今しも adds emphasis on the exact present instant and is less common in casual speech.
ちょうど 今いま ちょうど今 is a more colloquial way to say 'just now', while 今しも is slightly more literary or emphatic.
Etymology Compound of 今 (ima, 'now') and the emphatic particle しも (shimo), which adds a sense of 'exactly' or 'precisely'. The exact historical derivation of しも is uncertain, but it is an old emphatic suffix.
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The phone rang just as I was about to leave.
It has started raining right this moment.