these days

English

Adverb

these days (not comparable)

1. Currently, at present.

   These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.

   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

Usage notes

Often said when comparing to habitual things in the past (in those days)

Synonyms

• nowadays

Derived terms

• is that what the kids are calling it these days?
• one of these days

Translations

currently

• Azerbaijani: son zamanlar
• Bulgarian: тези дни (tezi dni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 如今 (zh) (rújīn), 近日 (zh) (jìnrì), 現在 / 现在 (zh) (xiànzài), 目前 (zh) (mùqián), (archaic) 目今 (zh) (mùjīn)

• Czech: poslední dobou
• Esperanto: nuntempe (eo)
• Finnish: nykyään (fi)
• French: ces jours-ci, de nos jours (fr)
• German: heutzutage (de)
• Greek: στις μέρες μας (stis méres mas), επί των ημερών μας (epí ton imerón mas) (learned)
• Indonesian: akhir-akhir ini, barusan ini
• Italian: oggidì (it), in questi giorni
• Japanese: 今時 (いまどき, imadoki), 年頃日頃 (としごろひごろ, toshigorohigoro), このごろ (ja) (konogoro), 近ごろ (ちかごろ, chikagoro), 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin)
• Korean: 요즈음 (ko) (yojeueum), 요즘 (ko) (yojeum)
• Ladino: endiya
• Marathi: आजकाल (ājkāl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: for tiden, nå for tiden, nå (no), om dagen, nå om dagen

• Old English: on þissum dagum
• Persian: امروزه (fa) (emruze)
• Portuguese: hoje em dia (pt)
• Russian: в после́днее вре́мя (v poslédneje vrémja), в э́ти дни́ (v éti dní)
• Scottish Gaelic: an latha an-diugh
• Slovak: dnes (sk)
• Spanish: hoy en día, actualmente (es), (literary) hogaño (es)
• Swahili: siku hizi
• Vietnamese: ngày nay (vi)
• Yiddish: הײַנטצוטאָג (haynttsutog)