English-French translations for yesterday

• hier
  Hier, vous nous les avez fournies. Yesterday you delivered these.
  Monsieur Falconer, vous étiez ici hier. Several of us were here yesterday.
  L'attaque d'hier l'a bien montré. Yesterday's attack showed that.
• veille
  Nous savons tous que le but des journaux de la veille, aussi excellents qu'ils soient, est d'emballer les marchandises. We all know that the purpose of yesterday's newspapers, however excellent they are, is to wrap up fish.
  Chacun fait quelque chose et, le lendemain, il fait l'inverse de ce qui avait été annoncé l'avant-veille. Everyone does something and the next day does the opposite of what was announced the day before yesterday.
  Mais les citoyens de l'Europe ont droit à un nouveau plat, un nouveau plat cuisiné qui soit au goût de tous et qui ne soit pas simplement un plat de la veille réchauffé. But the citizens of Europe are entitled to a new recipe, a new meal that will be to everybody's taste and will not just be yesterday's leftovers reheated.

Definition of yesterday

• The day immediately before today; one day ago
• The recent past, often disparaging
• On the day before today
• As soon as possible

Examples

• Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow
• Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow
• yesterdays technology
• I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening
• I want this done yesterday!

Related words

• ereyesterday
• yesterday’s
• yesterday's
• yesterday night
• yesterday|yesterday
• yesterday afternoon
• yesterday morning
• the day before yesterday
• day before yesterday