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Present in English means both gift, and it also mean the current (present)
time. Japanese online examples and translation seem to omit this second
meaning. Does プレゼント have both English meanings or just the "gift" meaning?
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Does プレゼント have both English meanings or just the "gift" meaning?
I do not have any information about frequency of such usages, but according to
[Japanese Wordnet](http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/omw/cgi-bin/wn-
gridx.cgi?usrname=&gridmode=wnja&lang=jpn&lang2=eng&lemma=%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88)
it has both meanings as "gift" and as "present time".

Probably second meaning is less frequently used in everyday speech.
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### Japanese プレゼント

Looking at various JA→EN dictionaries, the "gift" sense appears to be the only
one in common usage. Links:

  * [Eijirō Online](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88)
  * [Weblio's copy of Kenkyusha's New J-to-E Dictionary (研究社 新和英中辞典)](https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88)
  * [Jim Breen's WWWJDIC](http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1MUJ%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88)

Looking at monolingual JA↔JA dictionaries appears to corroborate this. Links:

  * [Kotobank's copies of Daijisen and Daijirin](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88-622279)

  * [Japanese Wiktionary](https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88)

### The other English senses

  * For "present time": 現在【げんざい】, 今【いま】
  * For "present, in attendance": 出席【しゅっせき】 (when describing people sitting, as at a meeting or movie or class), いる (when simply stating that someone **is** )
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