English
Etymology
From Middle English < Old English geostran dæg , compounded from geostran (yesterday) < Proto-Germanic *gestra- < Proto-Indo-European *ghes ; + Middle English day < Old English dæg < Proto-Germanic *dagaz < Proto-Indo-European *dhegh- (to burn).
Noun
yesterday
- The day before today.
- Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
Translations
day before today
- Arabic: أمْسِ (ams)
- Catalan: ahir
- Chinese: 昨天 (zuótiān)
- Czech: včera
- Dutch: gisteren
- Finnish: eilen , eilispäivä
- French: hier
- German: gestern
- Hungarian: tegnap
- Italian: ieri m
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- Japanese: 昨日 (きのう, kinō)
- Korean: 어제 (eoje)
- Lakota: htalehã
- Ojibwe: bijiinaago
- Portuguese: ontem
- Romanian: ieri
- Russian: вчера (včerá)
- Spanish: ayer
- Swedish: gårdagen
- Thai: เมื่อวานนี้ (meùùa waan nēē)
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Adverb
yesterday
- On the day before today
- I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish the movie this evening.
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Translations
on the day before today
- Afrikaans: gister
- Albanian: dje
- Anglo-Saxon: geostran
- Arabic: أمْسِ (ámsi), إمْبَارِح (imbáariħ)
- Basque: atzo
- Breton: dec'h
- Bulgarian: вчера (včera)
- Catalan: ahir
- Chickasaw: oblashush
- Chinese: 昨天 (zuótiān)
- Cornish: dé
- Croatian: jučer
- Czech: včera
- Danish: i går
- Dutch: gisteren
- Esperanto: hieraŭ
- Faeroese: í gjár
- Finnish: eilen
- French: hier
- Frisian: juster
- German: gestern
- Greek: χθές (khthés)
- Haitian Creole: yè
- Hebrew: אתמול (etmól)
- Hungarian: tegnap
- Icelandic: gær
- Indonesian: kemarin
- Interlingua: heri
- Italian: ieri m
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- Japanese: 昨日 (きのう, kinō; さくじつ , sakújitsu)
- Kazakh: keşe
- Korean: 어제 (eoje)
- Lakota: htalehã
- Latin: heri, here
- Latvian: vakar
- Lithuanian: adverb: vakar ; noun: vakardiena f, vakarykštė diena f
- Luxembourgish: gëschter
- Manx: jea
- Neapolitan craje
- Ngan'gityemerri: kultyinimbi
- Norwegian: igår
- Occitan: gèr
- Ojibwe: bijiinaago
- Papiamentu: ayera
- Polish: wczoraj
- Portuguese: ontem m
- Romanian: ieri
- Russian: вчера (včerá)
- Sanskrit: (hyas)
- Serbian: јуче (juče)
- Slovak: včera
- Slovene: včeraj
- Spanish: ayer m
- Swedish: i går , igår
- Tatar: kiçä
- Thai: เมื่อวานนี้ (meùùa waan nēē)
- Turkish: dün
- Ukrainian: учора (učora)
- Welsh: doe
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