adverb
today (colloquial)
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Heut: colloquial adverb meaning today. Informal shortened form of heute used in speech and dialect. Appropriate in casual contexts, writing avoided in formal registers. No inflection or special preposition; combines with time expressions (heut Abend ≈ heute Abend) though standard German prefers heute with full forms.
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Heut ist das Wetter schön.
Today the weather is nice.
Obwohl heut mehrere Vorträge angesetzt wurden, blieben die Reihen halb leer, weil viele Teilnehmer krank wurden.
Although several lectures were scheduled today, the rows stayed half empty because many participants became ill.
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Imagine someone speaking fast and dropping the final vowel: heut
Short for 'heute' — drop the 'e' like casual speech
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Colloquial shortened form of 'heute'; commonly used in poetry or informal speech.