ayer
Aragonese
Alternative forms
- ayere (Benasquese, Chistau)
- ahier
Etymology
Akin to Spanish ayer, from Latin herī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈʝe(ɾ)/
- Syllabification: a‧yer
- Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
Adverb
ayer
- yesterday
- Synonym: ixotrodía
References
- “ayer”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
Chavacano
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish ayer (“yesterday”).
Adverb
ayer
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈajər/ [ˈa.jər]
- Rhymes: -ajər
- Syllabification: a‧yer
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Karo Batak [Term?]
Noun
ayer (plural ayer-ayer)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦪꦼꦂ (ayer, “standing upright, foreman, worker supervisor”).
Noun
ayer (plural ayer-ayer)
- foreman, supervisor in mutual cooperation
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?].
Verb
ayer
Adverb
ayer
Further reading
- “ayer” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Romanization
ayer
- romanization of ꦲꦪꦼꦂ
Ladino
Etymology
Adverb
ayer
Malay
Noun
ayer (Jawi spelling اٴير, plural ayer-ayer)
Spanish
Etymology
From earlier yer, from Latin herī. Alternatively from Latin ab herī (“since yesterday”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Latin America): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: a‧yer
Adverb
ayer
- yesterday
- Antonym: mañana
- 2025 July 25, “La revisión del FMI y la expectativa por el desembolso: el análisis del economista Daniel Marx”, in CNN Radio Argentina[1]:
- El economista Daniel Marx conversó con Pepe Gil Vidal y Mariana Arias sobre el acuerdo entre el FMI y el Gobierno nacional y dijo que “el anuncio de ayer” del organismo internacional “es muy importante”, aunque aclaró que “ahora el directorio deberá revisar algunas de las cuestiones a futuro como el caso de la acumulación de reservas del Banco Central”.
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Noun
ayer m (plural ayeres)
- yesterday
- (figuratively) days gone by; yesteryear; the past
- Synonym: antaño
Derived terms
- anteayer, antehier, antier, antes de ayer
- hier
- no nací ayer
- para ayer
- transantehier
- trasanteayer
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “ayer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024