heutzutage
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Univerbation of heute + zu + Tage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]heutzutage
- nowadays, these days (in the present era; in the world as it is today)
Usage notes
[edit]Unlike English "nowadays" or "these days", German heutzutage does not also carry the sense of "recently"/"lately", i.e. it is not used to describe recent developments or recently adopted habits as in: "He's grumpy these days." For that sense, use in letzter Zeit or a construct of that sort.
Further reading
[edit]- “heutzutage” in Duden online
- “heutzutage” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “heutzutage” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon