the other day

English

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Adverb

the other day

(idiomatic) recently; lately; a few days ago.
I was in San Francisco just the other day.

Usage notes

Day can be replaced by night, evening, afternoon, morning. Week and month are less common. Other time terms are unlikely.

Translations

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
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), vor ein paar Tagen
Hungarian: a minap, nemrég (hu), a napokban
Icelandic: um daginn (is)
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)

Noun

the other day

(Philippines) the day before yesterday.

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