1 the day before today -- hier [ masculine ]
Yesterday was a good day. C’était une bonne journée hier.
2 (on) the day before today -- hier
Yesterday we heard from the government that there had also been some disturbances in the electoral process coming from outside the country.
We share the bewildered outrage, we feel the vulnerability, for this is our common inheritance from yesterday's barbarous outrage.
The minutes of yesterday's sitting have been distributed.
We heard the text yesterday, of course, but perhaps not everybody took it fully on board.
The previous trialogues, the last of which took place yesterday evening, have gone tremendously well from a technical point of view.
A large contingent from my group visited the occupied plant yesterday and engaged in lengthy talks with the workforce and union representatives.