German adverb · CEFR A2
vorgestern
Meaning in English: the day before yesterday
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Time words in German list.
Example
Das Paket ist schon vorgestern angekommen.
The parcel arrived the day before yesterday.
How common is vorgestern?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, vorgestern appears 0.9 times per million words — about once every 1,100,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
vorgestern is built from gestern (yesterday).
Time words: more words
- die Zeittime
- die Uhrclock, watch; o'clock
- die Stundehour, lesson
- die Minuteminute
- die Sekundesecond
- der Vormittagmorning (before noon)
- der Mittagnoon, midday, lunch
- der Nachmittagafternoon
- der Abendevening
- die Nachtnight
- die Mitternachtmidnight
- heutetoday
- morgentomorrow
- gesternyesterday
- übermorgenthe day after tomorrow
- jetztnow
In these word lists
- Time words in German30 words
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