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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Adverb 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Antonyms 1.4.3 Related terms 1.4.4 Translations 1.5 See also

[ English

[ Etymology

From Middle English < Old English geostran dæg, compounded from

• Old English geostran (“‘yesterday’”) < Proto-Germanic *gestra- < Proto-Indo-European *gʰes;
• Old English dæg < Proto-Germanic *dagaz < Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʰ- (“‘to burn’”).

[ Pronunciation

• RP: IPA: /ˈjestədeɪ/
• US: IPA: /ˈjestərdeɪ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪ

[ Noun

Singular yesterday

Plural yesterdays

yesterday (plural yesterdays)

1. The day before today.

   Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.

2. The (recent) past, often disparaging.

   Yesterday's technology.

   All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5]

[ Usage notes

• The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."

[ Translations

day before today

Arabic: أمْسِ (ams) Catalan: ahir Chinese: 昨天 (zuótiān) Czech: včerejšek cs(cs) m. Dutch: gisteren nl(nl) Esperanto: hieraŭ eo(eo) Finnish: eilinen fi(fi), eilispäivä fi(fi) French: hier fr(fr) German: gestern de(de) Greek: εχτές (ekhtés) Hebrew: אתמול (etmól) Hungarian: tegnap hu(hu) Icelandic: gærdagur (often with a definite article; gærdagurinn) The adverb í gær is much more frequently used than the noun equivalent. Inuktitut: ᐃᑉᐸᒃᓴᖅ Italian: ieri it(it) m. Japanese: 昨日 (きのう, kinō) Korean: 어제 (eoje) Lakota: htalehã

Latin: heri la(la) Lower Sorbian: cora Macedonian: вчера (včera) Malayalam: ഇന്നലെ (innale) Mongolian: өчигдөр mn(mn) (öčigdör) Ojibwe: bijiinaago Polish: wczoraj pl(pl) Portuguese: ontem pt(pt) Romanian: ieri ro(ro) Russian: вчера ru(ru) (včerá) Sindhi: ڪلهه (kalha) f. Spanish: ayer es(es) Swedish: gårdag sv(sv) Telugu: నిన్న (ninna) Thai: เมื่อวานนี้ (meùùa waan nēē) Tok Pisin: asde Ukrainian: учора / вчора (učóra / včóra) Upper Sorbian: wčera

the recent past

Finnish: eilinen fi(fi), eilispäivä fi(fi)

Icelandic: gærdagur m. (often with a definite article; gærdagurinn)

[ Adverb

yesterday

1. On the day before today

   I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish the movie this evening.

[ Synonyms

• the last day (Ireland)

[ Antonyms

• tomorrow

[ Related terms

• yester
• yestereven
• yestern
• yesternight
• yesteryear
• yestreen

[ Translations

on thee day before today

Afrikaans: gister Albanian: dje Amuzgo: bja Anglo-Saxon: geostran Arabic: أمْسِ (ámsi), إمْبَارِح (imbá:riħ) Basque: atzo Bosnian: jučer bs(bs) Breton: dec'h Bulgarian: вчера bg(bg) (včera) Catalan: ahir Chickasaw: oblashush Chinese: 昨天 (zuótiān) Cornish: dé Croatian: jučer hr(hr) Czech: včera cs(cs) Danish: i går da(da) Dutch: gisteren nl(nl) Esperanto: hieraŭ eo(eo) Faroese: í gjár fo(fo) Finnish: eilen fi(fi) French: hier fr(fr) West Frisian: juster German: gestern de(de) Greek: χθές (khthés) Haitian Creole: yè Hebrew: אתמול (etmól) Hungarian: tegnap hu(hu) Icelandic: í gær is(is) Indonesian: kemarin id(id) Interlingua: heri Irish: inné ga(ga) Italian: ieri it(it) m. Japanese: 昨日 (きのう, kinō; さくじつ, sakújitsu) Kazakh: keşe kk(kk)

Korean: 어제 (eoje) Lakota: htalehã Latin: heri la(la), here la(la) Latvian: vakar lv(lv) Lithuanian: adverb: vakar; noun: vakardiena f., vakarykštė diena f. Luxembourgish: gëschter Manx: jea Navajo: adą́ą́dą́ą́' Neapolitan: craje Ngan'gityemerri: kultyinimbi Norwegian: igår no(no) Occitan: gèr Ojibwe: bijiinaago Papiamentu: ayera Polish: wczoraj pl(pl) Portuguese: ontem pt(pt) m. Romanian: ieri ro(ro) Russian: вчера ru(ru) (včerá) Sanskrit: ह्यस् sa(sa) (hyas) Serbian: Cyrillic: јуче Roman: juče Sindhi: ڪلهه (kalha) f. Slovak: včera sk(sk) Slovene: včeraj sl(sl) Spanish: ayer es(es) m. Swedish: i går sv(sv), igår sv(sv) Tatar: kiçä Telugu: నిన్న (ninna) Thai: เมื่อวานนี้ (meùùa waan nēē) Tok Pisin: asde Turkish: dün tr(tr) Ukrainian: учора / вчора (učóra / včóra) Welsh: ddoe cy(cy)

[ See also

• today
• tomorrow night
• tonight
• last night
• nudiustertian