the other day

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

the other day

1. (idiomatic) recently; lately; a few days ago.

   I was in San Francisco just the other day.

   • 2024 August 21, Philip Haigh, “Stranded trains: problems for passengers and operators”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 52:

     Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.

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, 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
• Greek: τις προάλλες (el) (tis proálles)
• 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)

Noun

the other day

1. (Philippines) the day before yesterday.