actualmente
Galician
Further reading
- “actualmente” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua
Related terms
Portuguese
Adverb
actualmente (comparable, comparative mais actualmente, superlative o mais actualmente)
- Superseded spelling of atualmente. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)
Romanian
Etymology
From French actuellement.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌaɡtwalˈmente/ [ˌaɣ̞.t̪walˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: ac‧tual‧men‧te
Adverb
actualmente
- at present, currently, now, nowadays
- Synonym: hoy en día
- Actualmente está en Chicago.
- At the present time he's in Chicago.
Usage notes
- Actualmente is a false friend, and does not mean "actually". To say "actually" in Spanish, use realmente (in the sense of "really"), verdaderamente (in the sense of "truthfully") or the phrase en realidad (in the sense of "contrary to an assumption").
Further reading
- “actualmente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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