Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a hobby baker tastes a slice of homemade sponge cake that has risen but remains a little dense in the middle. The cake is neatly decorated and mostly appealing, yet the baker’s slight frown and wavering flat hand show restrained disappointment.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

今いまひとつ

imahitotsu

not quite, somewhat lacking

Example sentences

  1. 実験じっけんの結果けっかは今いまひとつぱっとしなかった。

    Our experimental results left something to be desired.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それがどのようにして起おきたのか、いま一ひとつよく分わからない。

    I don’t quite know how it happened.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. が、創建そうけんの正確せいかくな時期じきや事情じじょうについては正史せいしに記録きろくが見みえず、今いまひとつ明あきらかでない。

    However, the accurate period and situation at the time of the foundation are not seen in official history and are not so clear.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 今

  • 今nowOnコン・キンKunいま

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