the other day

English

(idiomatic) recently; lately; a few days ago.
I was in San Francisco just the other day.

Day can be replaced by night, evening, afternoon, morning. Week and month are less common. Other time terms are unlikely.

lately

Arabic: مُنْذُ بِضْعَة أَيَّام‎ (munḏu biḍʿat ʾayyām), بِالْأَمْس‎ (bi-l-ʾams), مُنْذُ عَهْد قَرِيب‎ (munḏu ʿahd qarīb), مُنْذُ فَتْرَة قَرِيبَة‎ (munḏu fatra qarība), مُؤَخَّرًا‎ (muʾaḵḵaran), حَدِيثًا‎ (ḥadīṯan)
Bulgarian: онзи ден (onzi den)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 前幾天 (zh), 前几天 (zh) (qiánjǐtiān), 最近 (zh) (zuìjìn), 近日 (zh) (jìnrì)
Czech: nedávno (cs)
Esperanto: lastfoje
Finnish: äskettäin (fi), hiljattain (fi); eräänä 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, vor ein paar Tagen
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
Yiddish: אַנומלט‎ (anumlt)

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