今晩

こんばん · konban · JLPT N5 · noun

this evening

🌙 今晩 = now (今) + evening (晩): this evening

今 (kon) means now or this, as in 今週 (this week). 晩 (ban) means evening. Add は and you get こんばんは, the greeting good evening, which literally starts a sentence: as for this evening...

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