今に

いまに · imani · JLPT N3 · adverb

before long

⏳ 今 now + に toward = heading into now, so any moment now

Literally toward now: the future is about to arrive in the present. It is common in 今にわかる (you will understand before long) and 今に見ていろ (just you wait), so it often carries a sense of something that is bound to happen.

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