day after tomorrow, day before yesterday

[Bienvenidos]

Hi everyone,

These terms are common in some languages but seem strange to most English speakers, since we don't have a term for these concepts. What about your language?

Persian
(Trying my best to transliterate correctly here)

Day before yesterday:
pareyrose
Day after tomorrow:
degasabâ (literally, other tomorrow)

Thanks!

 

[Outsider]

Portuguese:

Day before yesterday:
anteontem (literally, before-yesterday)
Day after tomorrow:
depois de amanhã ("after tomorrow"; there is no specific word for it)

 

[ErOtto]

In Spanish (similar as in Portuguese)

Day before yesterday:
anteayer

Day after tomorrow:
pasado mañana


In German

Day before yesterday:
vorgestern
Day after tomorrow:
übermorgen

Saludos/Grüsse
ErOtto

 

[Etcetera]

In Russian:
day after tomorrow = послезавтра / poslezavtra
day before yesterday = позавчера / pozavchera

 

[badgrammar]

French:
day after tomorrow - après-demain
day before yesterday - avant-hier

 

[karuna]

In Latvian:

day after tomorrow: parīt (as an adverb) or parītdiena (as a noun). Verbatim: intensifier prefix + tomorrow [+ day].

day before yesterday: aizvakar, aizvakardiena (after + yesterday)

The day after the day after tomorrow is also very common: aizparīt (after + intens. prefix + tomorrow).

Two prefixes aiz- is considered a bad style but people sometimes speak like this too: aizaizparīt, aizaizvakar.

 

[Maja]

In Serbian:

day before yesterday - prekjuče (literally: "over yesterday")
day after tomorrow - prekosutra ("over tomorrow").

 

[jonquiliser]

Day after tomorrow:
después de mañana ("after tomorrow"; there is no specific word for it)

But you can say "pasado mañana", right?

Swedish:
[the day before yesterday] - I förrgår
[the day after tomorrow] - i övermorgon

Galician:
antonte
pasado mañán

 

[Lemminkäinen]

Norwegian:

Day after tomorrow: i over(i)morgen
Day before yesterday: i forgårs

I included the preposition i, as I can't think of any instances where they're not used with it.

 

[Frank06]

Hi,

In Dutch:
Day after tomorrow: overmorgen
Day before yesterday: eergisteren

Groetjes,

Frank

 

[Hakro]

Finnish:
Day after tomorrow: ylihuomenna (literally "over-tomorrow")
Day before yesterday: toissapäivänä (literally "the other day")

 

[parakseno]

For Romanian:

Day after tomorrow: poimâine (from Latin: post+mane)
Day before yesterday: alaltăieri (cealaltă+ieri - "the other yesterday")

 

[Cosol]

Italian:
day after tomorrow: Dopodomani (literally AfterTomorrow)
day before yesterday: L'altro ieri (literally The other yesterday)

We usually use a day in the week instead of them...

Mandarin
day after tomorrow: 后天 hòutiān (literally: after-day)
day before yesterday 前天 qiántiān (literally: preceding-day)

 

[linguist786]

Great question! Because in Gujarati, we use the same word for both concepts! It's:

પરમદિવસ (paramdivas)

Obviously we work out from the context which one we mean. For instance:

હું ત્યાં પરમદિવસે જવાનો છે
[huN tyaaN paravdivasé javaano Che]
"I am going to go there the day after tomorrow"

Obviously in this case, it doesn't make sense if you translate it as "the day before yesterday".

You get the idea

 

[Flaminius]

Japanese:
the day after tomorrow: asatte (etymology not known)
the day before yesterday: ototoi or ototsui (literally, lesser day)

the day after the day after tomorrow: shiasatte (shi + asatte)
the day before the day before yesterday: sakiototoi (saki [before] + ototoi)

 

[samanthalee]

Mandarin
day after tomorrow: 后天 hòutiān (literally: after-day)
day before yesterday 前天 qiántiān (literally: preceding-day)

I heard that the Hollywood movie "The Day after Tomorrow" got translated as 后天 hòutiān (literally: after-day) in some Chinese regions.

What about other languages?

 

[Alijsh]

Persian
(Trying my best to transliterate correctly here)

Day before yesterday:
pareyrose
Day after tomorrow:
degasabâ (literally, other tomorrow)

We don't have degasabâ. We say pasfardâ (literally post-tomorrow). For the day after pasfardâ, we have also a word: pasânfardâ.

We pronounce pareyrose as pariruz. For the day before pariruz, we have pišpariruz.

 

[ErOtto]

But you can say "pasado mañana", right?

Si. se me "fue la pinza" al usar el ejemplo portugués. De hecho, ES pasado mañana. Corrijo mi post anterior. Gracias.

Saludos
ErOtto

 

[cherine]

In Arabic:
after tomorrow: بعد غد ba3d ghad(in).
before yesterday : أول أمس awwal ams.

In colloquial Arabic of Egypt:
after tomorrow: بعد بكرة ba3d(e) bokra.
before yesterday : أول امبارح awwel embaare7.

French:
day after tomorrow - après-demain/le surlendemain

Allow me to differ: I think you meant "le lendemain".
Le surlendemain is the day after the day after tomorrow In other words -in French- c'est le jour après le lendemain.

 

[badgrammar]

Allow me to differ: I think you meant "le lendemain".
Le surlendemain is the day after the day after tomorrow In other words -in French- c'est le jour après le lendemain.

Oh! At first thought, I thought you were 100% correct! I will edit my post if it is not too late !

Now I am wondering, if you will look at this:

Le jour de la fête il est allé à la boulangerie achèter du pain.
Le lendemain, il y est retourné pour achèter des croissants.
Le surlendemain, la boulangerie était fermée.

But in writing it, I realize that "le lendemain" and le "surlendemain" does not make any reference to tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it means the next day, or the day after that...

What do you think? In any case you are right that "surlendemain" does not mean "day after tomorrow".

 

[zaby]

[...]
Allow me to differ: I think you meant "le lendemain".
Le surlendemain is the day after the day after tomorrow In other words -in French- c'est le jour après le lendemain.

[...]But in writing it, I realize that "le lendemain" and le "surlendemain" does not make any reference to tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it means the next day, or the day after that...

Hi Cherine and Badgrammar, you're right, le surlendemain does not translate the day after tomorrow. Le surlendemain is indeed the day after le lendemain, but as Badgrammar said, it does not make any reference to tomorrow. To sum things up we have :

___Day D_______Day D+1_______Day D+2

Aujourd'hui______Demain_______Après-demain

[une certaine____Le lendemain__Le surlendemain
date passée
ou future]

edit : oh and since I'm here , let's precise the same thing for Day-1 and Day-2 :

Day D-2______Day D-1___Day D

avant-hier____hier_______aujourd'hui

l'avant-veille__la veille____[une certaine date passée ou future]

 

[cherine]

Badgrammar & Zaby,
You're right of course, about "le lendemain" meaing (the next day) and "le surlendemain" meaning (the day after the next day).
The problem is that I checked my Larousse right before I posted, with the 100% confidence that "le lendemain" does not mean tomorrow, when I found this :
Lendemain n.m. (anc. fr. l'endemain). 1. Jour qui suit celui ou l'on est*, ou celui dont on parle.
So I hesitated
But I assure you that I never used it in that sense

*Highlight's mine.

 

[deine]

Lithuanian:

Day After Tomorrow - poryt
Day Before Yesterday - užvakar

 

[Lancel0t]

Filipino:

Day After Tomorrow - ang araw pagkatapos ng bukas
Day Before Yesterday - ang araw bago kahapon

 

[suslik]

In Estonian:

Day before yesterday: üleeile
Day after tomorrow: ülehomme

 

[panjabigator]

Panjabi and Hindi have the same word both terms. It is one day in either direction. Context is key here!
Day before yesterday/Day after tomorrow: परसों (Hindi) ਪਰਸੋਂ (Panjabi)

 

[Nanon]

Standard Spanish: anteayer
In Venezuela and some other regions, the variant "antier" (colloquial according to DRAE) is also used.

Especialmente para Bienvenidos...

 

[krolaina]

In Spanish (similar as in Portuguese)

Day before yesterday:
anteayer (o antes de ayer). I´m sorry for the intrusion

 

[Outsider]

Indeed, you can also say antes de ontem in Portuguese. Don't know how I forgot about that!

 

[Jana337]

Czech:
předevčírem - the day before yesterday
včera - yesterday
dnes - today
zítra - tomorrow
pozítří - the day after tomorrow

Před - before, po - after.

 

[panjabigator]

According to my Catalan dictionary,

despús-ahir, abans-d'ahir.

Veiem què diuen els natius!

 

[betulina]

That's right, Panja! In Catalan:

The day before yesterday - abans-d'ahir / despús-ahir (different dialects)
The day after tomorrow - demà passat / despús-demà (different dialects)

 

[Lugubert]

Swedish is of course close to the Norwegian already posted:
Övermorgon (over-morning) - day after tomorrow
Förrgår (previously-yesterday) - day before yesterday

Transcription of the Hindi/Panjabi (post #26) for both ideas: parsõ.
(Hindi tomorrow = yesterday is कल kal.)

 

[doman]

Vietnamese:


The day before yesterday: Hôm kia
Yesterday: Hôm qua
Today: Hôm nay
Tomorrow: Ngày mai
The day after tomorow: Ngày kia

 

[mae~]

Polish:

pojutrze - day after tomorrow (literally 'after tomorrow')
przedwczoraj - day before yesterday (literally 'before yesterday')

 

[Alxmrphi]

Icelandic:

The day after tomorrow: - hinn daginn
The day before yesterday: - í fyrradag

 

[Mac_Linguist]

In Macedonian:

Day after tomorrow — заутре (за [prep.] + утре ["tomorrow"])
Day before yesterday — завчера (за [prep.] + вчера ["yesterday"])

 

[Binapesi]

The day before yesterday;
Evvelsi Gün.
(Evvel=Önce: Before. Gün: Day.)

The day after tomorrow;
Ertesi Gün.
(Erte=Sonra: After. Gün: Day.)


P.S.: "Ertesi gün" is also used for the day after the day that an event happens.
For example: Cuma günü gittim, ertesi günü (cumartesi) geri geldim.
(I went on Friday, came back the day after it. (saturday))

 

[_Me Na_]

In Spanish / En Español

Day before yesterday:
Anteayer (usualmente se dice "antier", mal pronunciado ya que lo correcto es anteayer)

Day after tomorrow:
Pasado mañana

 

[Qcumber]

Tagalog (Philippines)

four days ago = ka-makaápat
three days ago = ka-makatló
two days ago / the day before yesterday = ka-makalawá
yesterday = kahápon
today = ngayón
tomorrow = búkas
in two days / the day after tomorrow = sa-makalawá
in three days = sa-makatló
in four days = sa-makaápat

Ka- refers to the past, sa- to the future.
Maka- is a prefix used in various numerical derivatives.

The numerical radicals are:
dawá > -lawá "two"
tatló > -tló "three"
ápat = for
etc.

I am not sure Tagalogs still use this system.

 

[Thomas1]

Polish:
przedwczoraj - the day before yesterday
wczoraj - yesterday
dziś/dzisiaj - today
jutro - tomorrow
pojutrze - the day after tomorrow


Tom

 

[gogoneddus]

Welsh/Cymraeg:

The Day Before Yesterday: Echddoe

The Day After Tomorrow: Trennydd

 

[AkErBeLtZ]

In Basque:
- "The day before the day before yesterday" = Herenegun-atzetik
- The day before yesterday = Herenegun
- Yesterday = Atzo
- Today = Gaur
- Tomorrow = Bihar
- The day after tomorrow = Etzi
- "The day after the day after tomorrow" = Etzidamu

 

[barbiegood]

In Hungarian:

tegnapelőtt - day before yesterday
tegnap - yesterday
ma - today
holnap - tomorrow
holnapután - the day after tomorrow

 

[Eva Maria]

NOTE: Betulina has already given the Catalan form (and in two dialects!!!). However, I leave my post only for its interesting literally meaning!

In Catalan:

The day after tomorrow = Passat demà (Literally: Past tomorrow)

The day before yesterday = Abans d'ahir (Literally: Before yesterday)

EM

 

[Staarkali]

Allow me to differ: I think you meant "le lendemain".
Le surlendemain is the day after the day after tomorrow In other words -in French- c'est le jour après le lendemain.

Please let me rewrite your sentence after translating into English of the second part (its not pointless, you'll see)
Le surlendemain is the day after the day after tomorrow In other words -in French- it's the day after tomorrow.

Apparently something is weird (hint: the second statement is true)

 

[cherine]

Please let me rewrite your sentence after translating into English of the second part (its not pointless, you'll see)
Le surlendemain is the day after the day after tomorrow In other words -in French- it's the day after tomorrow.
Apparently something is weird (hint: the second statement is true)

You're right. I didn't want to edit my previous -erronous- post, so please re-read this one I posted later:

Badgrammar & Zaby,
You're right of course, about "le lendemain" meaing (the next day) and "le surlendemain" meaning (the day after the next day).
The problem is that I checked my Larousse right before I posted, with the 100% confidence that "le lendemain" does not mean tomorrow, when I found this :
Lendemain n.m. (anc. fr. l'endemain). 1. Jour qui suit celui ou l'on est*, ou celui dont on parle.
So I hesitated
But I assure you that I never used it in that sense

*Highlight's mine.

 

[TraductoraPobleSec]

That's right, Panja! In Catalan:

The day before yesterday - abans-d'ahir / despús-ahir (different dialects)
The day after tomorrow - demà passat / despús-demà (different dialects)

NOTE: Betulina has already given the Catalan form (and in two dialects!!!). However, I leave my post only for its interesting literally meaning!

In Catalan:

The day after tomorrow = Passat demà (Literally: Past tomorrow)

The day before yesterday = Abans d'ahir (Literally: Before yesterday)

EM

Hi everyone,

I am afraid but I disagree, Eva Maria

I don't think "passat demà" is correct. As Betulina pointed out, it's "demà passat". It's a very common mistake, though, since it's "pasado mañana" in Spanish and people just translate literally...

Or maybe in Tarragona everyone says "passat demà"...

A big hug from el Poble Sec

 

[Staarkali]

You're right. I didn't want to edit my previous -erronous- post, so please re-read this one I posted later:

Yeah, sorry about that, when I saw your post, I didnt notice there were 2 other pages; only when I posted mine, I realized but I was lazy enough not to click the delete button

 

[cennet]

hi everyone
in Luxemburgish it's
viirgëschter=the day before yesterday
iwwermoar= the day after tomorrow
greetings