How to say “yesterday” in 47 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Korean, where 거야 is the 9th most used word.
- Afrikaans gister yesterday; the previous day #464
- Albanian dje #574
- Arabic أمس #422
- Armenian երեկ #527
- Basque atzo #333
- Bengali গতকাল #609
- Bosnian sinoć last night, yesterday night; yesterday evening #560
- Bulgarian вчера #536
- Catalan ahir #471
- Chinese 昨天 #237
- Croatian sinoć last night, yesterday night; yesterday evening #516
- Czech včera #432
- Dutch gisteren #609
- Esperanto hieraŭ #486
- Estonian eile #399
- Finnish eilen #436
- French hier #416
- Galician onte #432
- German gestern #469
- Greek χθες #442
- Hebrew אתמול #319
- Hindi कल #222
- Hungarian tegnap #321
- Icelandic gær #419
- Indonesian kemarin #569
- Italian ieri #446
- Korean 거야 last night, yesterday evening #9
- Latvian vakar #548
- Lithuanian vakar #257
- Macedonian вчера #451
- Malay kelmarin ereyesterday, the day before yesterday; two… #1,952
- Malayalam ഇന്നലെ #168
- Persian دیروز #1,664
- Polish wczoraj #433
- Portuguese ontem #407
- Romanian ieri #621
- Russian вчера #426
- Serbian sinoć last night, yesterday night; yesterday evening #529
- Slovak včera #285
- Slovenian včeraj #289
- Spanish ayer #663
- Swedish igår #565
- Tagalog kahapon #1,238
- Tamil நேற்று #544
- Telugu నిన్న #617
- Turkish dün #288
- Ukrainian вчора #618
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.