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is いいえ/no the same as not? For example, if I said,いいえ きょう, would that mean Not
Today? Or No Today? I know google translate is known to be inaccurate, but it
shows both Not and No as the same, いいえ. Sorry if this is kind of a dumb
question, but I'm getting kind of confused. The language app I use to learn is
Drops if that helps, and I am a beginner.
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Is no the same as not?
It just means "No". "Not Today" would be 今日じゃないです or 今日ではありません. (Keep in mind
that sentence structures are quite different from English.)
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For starters, your premise about いいえ not entirely correct. いいえ does not
translate directly to English _**no**_ ; it really means what amounts to
_**negative**_ or _**opposite**_. So while most of the time that _can_
directly translate to _**no**_ , it "naturally" translates to English
_**yes**_ when the preceding question is negative (and similarly for はい).

> A: おい、[今日]{きょう}[公園]{こう・えん}に[行]{い}きますか: Hey, are you going to the park today?  
>  B: いいえ、行きません: No (I'm not going)—sounds fine in English.

> A: 今日公園に[行きません]{not going}か: Aren't you going to the park today?
>
> Natural English (what we'd say) → Japanese → Literal English (what it means)
>
>   * You _**aren't**_ going: " **No** , I am not going" → 「 **はい** 、行きません」 →
> Yes/Affirmative/Correct, I am [not going]{行きません}
>   * You _**are**_ going: " **Yeah** , I am going" → 「 **いいえ** 、行きます」 →
> "No/Negative/Incorrect (I am not [not going]{行きません}), I **am** going"
>

So its meaning is directly tied to the actual verb form used.

So now knowing a broader meaning of いいえ, you can see that it cannot be applied
to "not today". As @Vue said, it has to be [今日じゃない or
今日ではありません](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/12846/78) ("(it is) not
today").
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