"Tegnapelőtt hétvége volt."

Translation: The day before yesterday was the weekend.

[Don6740]

The "correct" translation is not good English. "Weekend" needs an article in front of it and a weekend is more than one day!

[Richard401939]

I wrote "tegnap előtt" in place of "tegnapelőtt". Could someone explain me? Is there a rule for it?

[RyagonIV]

The rule is that tegnapelőtt, and conversely holnapután, is one word. Just like, let's see... 'wristwatch' in English.

[Pestetreizile]

Why is "a" missing before "hétvége" here?

[Apahegy]

Articles are used differently in various languages, You have to pretty much read enough to learn when it shows up and when it doesn't. Sometimes there isn't a clear rule, and you just have to get a feel for it.

[O_Matty]

"The weekend was the day before yesterday." Is there something about the word order that makes this invalid?

[RyagonIV]

Well, you could also say "A hétvége tegnapelőtt volt." Says basically the same, but has a different point of view, either focusing on when the weekend was, or realising what the day before yesterday was.

[AlexusD90]

It's bad that English has no modern special word for "the day before yesterday". Most of languages have it. Although there is an obsolete word "ereyesterday. "

[MichaelC.B7]

The weekend is not a day

[RyagonIV]

The festival is not a day either, yet it can be tomorrow. :)