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ieri
yesterday /ˈjerʲ/
adverb#603 most common
Example sentences
Ieri a fost o zi frumoasă.
Yesterday was a beautiful day.
Am mâncat pizza ieri seară.
I ate pizza yesterday evening.
Ieri am întârziat la muncă din cauza traficului.
Yesterday I was late for work because of the traffic.
Ziarul de ieri scria despre alegerile locale.
Yesterday's newspaper wrote about the local elections.
Discuția pe care am avut-o ieri m-a făcut să-mi reconsider planurile.
The discussion we had yesterday made me reconsider my plans.
Ceea ce părea imposibil ieri a devenit, peste noapte, o certitudine incontestabilă.
What seemed impossible yesterday became, overnight, an indisputable certainty.
Word family
alaltăierithe day before yesterday
ieri searăyesterday evening
ieri dimineațăyesterday morning
de ierifrom yesterday, yesterday's
de azi pe ieriovernight, all of a sudden
Etymology
Ieri comes from the Latin adverb heri, meaning yesterday. The word passed into Romanian with the initial h sound dropped and an e-to-ie diphthongization typical of Romanian, a shift seen in other words that started with a short e in Latin. Latin heri itself traces back to an old Indo-European word for yesterday.
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