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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
the other day
- (idiomatic) recently; lately; a few days ago.
I was in San Francisco just the other day.
Usage notes[edit]
- Day can be replaced by night, evening, afternoon, morning. Week and month are less common. Other time terms are unlikely.
Translations[edit]
lately
- Afrikaans: nou die dag, onlangs
- Arabic: مُنْذُ بِضْعَةْ أَيَّام (munḏu biḍʕat ʔayyām), بِالْأَمْس (bi-l-ʔams), مُنْذُ عَهْد قَرِيب (munḏu ʕahd qarīb), مُنْذُ فَتْرَة قَرِيبَة (munḏu fatra(t) qarība), مُؤَخَّرًا (muʔaḵḵaran), حَدِيثًا (ḥadīṯan)
- Azerbaijani: dünənləri
- Bulgarian: онзи ден (onzi den)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 前幾天／前几天 (zh) (qiánjǐtiān), 最近 (zh) (zuìjìn), 近日 (zh) (jìnrì)
- Czech: nedávno (cs)
- Dutch: onlangs (nl)
- Esperanto: lastfoje
- Finnish: äskettäin (fi), hiljattain (fi); eräänä päivänä, tässä yhtenä päivänä
- French: l’autre jour (fr), récemment (fr), ces derniers jours, dernièrement (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: neulich (de), kürzlich (de), vor kurzem (de), in letzter Zeit, vor ein paar Tagen
- Hungarian: a minap, nemrég (hu), a napokban
- Icelandic: um daginn
- Ingrian: taanoin, taano
- Irish: an lá cheana, an lá eile, an lá faoi dheireadh
- Japanese: 先日 (ja) (せんじつ, senjitsu), この間 (このあいだ, kono aida), 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin), 先頃 (ja) (さきごろ, sakigoro)
- Latin: dudum, nūper (la)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: her om dagen
- Bokmål: for noen dager siden, nylig
- Nynorsk: for nokre dagar sidan, nyleg
- Persian: اَخیراً (fa), چَند روز پیش, به تازگی
- Polish: niedawno (pl), ostatnio (pl), kilka dni temu
- Portuguese: esses dias
- Russian: на дня́х (ru) (na dnjáx), неда́вно (ru) (nedávno), не́сколько дней наза́д (néskolʹko dnej nazád), наме́дни (ru) (namédni)
- Scottish Gaelic: an latha roimhe, an latha eile
- Spanish: el otro día, recientemente (es)
- Swahili: juzijuzi
- Swedish: häromdagen (sv)
- Turkish: birkaç gün önce, geçen gün, geçenlerde (tr), öteki gün
- Vietnamese: hôm nọ (vi)
- Yiddish: אַנומלט (anumlt)
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the other day
- (Philippines) the day before yesterday.
