いよいよ
いよいよ · iyoiyo · JLPT N2 · adverb
at last
🥁 Doubled いよ (弥, ever more): ever more, ever more… and at last!
Old Japanese いよ (弥) meant more and more. Saying it twice stacks the build-up, like a drumroll that ends when the moment finally arrives: いよいよ明日だ = at last, it is tomorrow.