This is the 4223rd most frequent Japanese word.
今朝
"今朝" means "this morning" in English.
In this sentence, '今朝' refers to the current day's morning, establishing a definite time frame for the weather condition being described.
今朝は晴れていました。
This morning, it was sunny.
Here, '今朝' specifies the temporal context when the birds' sounds were heard, grounding the event in the morning of the current day.
今朝、鳥の声が聞こえました。
This morning, I heard the sound of birds.
In this instance, '今朝' is used as part of a possessive construction, linking the news explicitly to the morning of the current day.