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今夜 (こんや, konya) Japanese meaning: this evening | Kotomora
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つき
がきれい
だ
。
The moon is beautiful tonight.
I'm going out to eat with a friend this evening.
Usage patterns 今こん 夜や 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something tonight (used adverbially, no particle needed)
I'm going out to dinner with a friend tonight.
今夜中こんやじゅう に 〈 動詞どうし〉 〉 to do something by the end of tonight
I have to finish the report by tonight.
今こん 夜や は 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 に 泊と まる to stay at (a place) tonight
I'm planning to stay at a hotel tonight.
Related words 今夜 and 今晩 both mean 'tonight', but 今晩 sounds slightly more formal and is common in greetings like 今晩は, while 今夜 is the everyday word for referring to the coming evening.
今宵 is a poetic or literary way to say 'tonight', while 今夜 is the plain, everyday term used in ordinary conversation.
Opposites 今夜 means 'tonight' (the coming night), the direct temporal opposite of 昨夜, which means 'last night' (the night just past).
今夜 means 'tonight', the opposite time reference to 昨夜 ('last night').
Etymology Compound of 今 (kon, 'now') and 夜 (ya, 'night'). The reading こんや is a straightforward on'yomi combination.
