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English
Pronunciation
Adverb
one day
- (set phrase) At some unspecified time in the future.
- Synonyms: one of these days, some day; see also Thesaurus:one day
One day I shall upgrade my software, but not just yet.
- At some unspecified time in the past.
- Synonym: once
One day I was playing with a girl from my class.
1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC:One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one, day.
You can stay one day or two.
Translations
at unspecified time in the future
- Arabic: مَرَّةً (ar) (marratan), يَوْمًا (yawman)
- Belarusian: не́калі (njékali), калі́-не́будзь (kalí-njébudzʹ)
- Bengali: একদিন (bn) (ekdin)
- Catalan: un dia m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 某一天 (mǒu yī tiān), 有一天 (zh) (yǒu yī tiān), 一天 (zh) (yī tiān)
- Czech: někdy (cs)
- East Central German: aanstoochs
- Esperanto: iam (eo)
- Finnish: jonakin päivänä, joskus (fi)
- French: un jour (fr)
- Georgian: როდისმე (rodisme)
- German: eines Tages (de)
- Greek: κάποια μέρα (kápoia méra)
- Hindi: एक दिन m (ek din)
- Hungarian: egy napon, egy szép napon, egyszer majd, majd valamikor
- Italian: un giorno o l'altro
- Japanese: いつか (ja) (itsuka)
- Korean: 언젠가 (ko) (eonjen'ga)
- Latin: olim (la)
- Macedonian: еден ден (eden den)
- Malayalam: ഒരു ദിവസം (oru divasaṁ), ഒരിക്കൽ (ml) (orikkal)
- Maltese: jum fost l-oħrajn
- Middle English: ones
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: en gang, en dag
- Nynorsk: ein gong, ein dag
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: یِک روز (yek ruz), یِکْروز (fa) (yekruz)
- Polish: kiedyś (pl), pewnego dnia
- Portuguese: algum dia
- Romanian: într-o zi
- Russian: одна́жды (ru) (odnáždy), когда́-нибу́дь (ru) (kogdá-nibúdʹ), когда́-то (ru) (kogdá-to)
- Scottish Gaelic: latha de na làithean, lath'-eigin
- Slovak: niekedy
- Spanish: algún día (es)
- Swedish: en vacker dag (sv)
- Tagalog: balang-araw
- Tamil: ஒரு நால் (oru nāl)
- Turkish: bir gün
- Ukrainian: коли́сь (kolýsʹ), коли́-не́будь (kolý-nébudʹ)
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