If 'vorgestern' means the day before yesterday, 'gestern' means yesterday, 'morgen' means tomorrow, and 'übermorgen' means the day after tomorrow, would 'vormorgen' count as a long-winded way of saying today? (heute)
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Re: Days
I guess so. But no kidding, two words that do exist are vorvorgestern and überübermorgen. The German language is great at creating those very long words like Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän or Parkettbodenschleifmaschinenenverleihfirma. But the two I gave you are where it ends with the days, although I found "Schnee von vorvorvorgestern" as a clue in a crossword puzzle. Do you know the four letter word for snow from three days ago? It's the same word in English and in German: Firn. By the way: Schnee von gestern means yesterday's news in English.
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Re: Days
I think "vormorgen" and "nachgestern" are two words I would like to add to my vocabulary to confuse my fellow Germans.
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Re: Days
[mention]Chrisinom[/mention] Firn is at least a year old. Most definitely three days old and more. A younger snow is névé.
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Re: Days
Corinnebelle wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:47 pm@Chrisinom Firn is at least a year old. Most definitely three days old and more. A younger snow is névé.
Technically you're right. But the crossword is from DIE ZEIT, a slightly more intellectual German magazine. To solve their puzzles, you must think around the corner (The title of their crosswords is "Um die Ecke gedacht" ) and keep in mind the metaphorical meaning of" Schnee von gestern", obsolete. So Schnee von gestern is névé and Schnee von vorgestern is Firn. Otherwise we would have to add another 362 "vors".