третьего дня

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Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):  (phonetic respelling: тре́тьево дня́)

Adverb

тре́тьего дня́ (trétʹjevo dnja)

  1. day before yesterday, two days previously
    • 1886, Антон Павлович Чехов (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov), “На даче”, in Будильник, volume 20, Saint Petersburg; translated as “At a Summer Villa”, in Constance Garnett, transl., Love and other stories, London: Chatto & Windus, 1922, page 307:
      Вдруг Па́вел Ива́ныч вспо́мнил, что вчера́ и тре́тьего дня, когда́ он гуля́л на да́чном кругу́, ему́ не́сколько раз встреча́лась моло́денькая блонди́ночка в све́тло-голубо́м пла́тье и с вздёрнутым но́сиком.
      Vdrug Pável Iványč vspómnil, što včerá i trétʹjevo dnja, kogdá on guljál na dáčnom krugú, jemú néskolʹko raz vstrečálasʹ molódenʹkaja blondínočka v svétlo-golubóm plátʹje i s vzdjórnutym nósikom.
      Pavel Ivanitch suddenly recalled that when he had been walking among the summer villas the day before, and the day before that, he had several times been met by a fair young lady with a light blue hat and a turn-up nose.

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