"current husband"?


How does one read **今夫** , as in the sentence here:

>
> 私【わたくし】の知【し】り合【あ】いの女性【じょせい】は、[5]{ご}階【かい】に元夫【もとおっと】、[10]{じゅっ}階【かい】に今夫【いまおっと】さんがいるそうで、[4]{よん}階【かい】で本人【ほんにん】がモリモリ働【はたら】いています
> ([source](https://otekomachi.yomiuri.co.jp/advice/20211104-OKT8T313951/?utm_source=yomiuri&utm_medium=yol&utm_campaign=yoltop_otekomachi))
>
> _I know a woman who has an ex-husband on the 5th floor and a current husband
> on the 10th floor, and she is working on the 4th floor._

Is it at all conceivable that it could be pronounced 今夫【こんぶ】?




I guess the source of your doubt is that the reading いまおっと certainly is not
standard. It is used by extension of colloquial
[[今彼]{いまかれ}](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E4%BB%8A%E5%BD%BC/) = current
boyfriend. But I don't think people usually say [今妻]{いまつま} (though [元妻]{もとつま}
sounds usual).

As such こんぷ is not possible; Most 今 has the single reading depending on the
combination. Words like 今日 = きょう, こんにち are exceptions (I don't come up with
any other..).




I guess the source of your doubt is that the reading いまおっと certainly is not
standard. It is used by extension of colloquial
[[今彼]{いまかれ}](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E4%BB%8A%E5%BD%BC/) = current
boyfriend. But I don't think people usually say [今妻]{いまつま} (though [元妻]{もとつま}
sounds usual).

As such こんぷ is not possible; Most 今 has the single reading depending on the
combination. Words like 今日 = きょう, こんにち are exceptions (I don't come up with
any other..).

