"Jag pratade med läkarna i förrgår."
Translation:I spoke to the doctors the day before yesterday.
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For those grammar nerds out there, "I spoke with the doctors ereyesterday" is technically correct, but obsolete. Similarly with "overmorrow" for the day after tomorrow.
Ereyesterday is simply two words joined together. The word ere is pronounced like the first syllable in error, though how strongly the r is pronounced is dialectical. You'll get it erelong.
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I didn't try it, but with the phrase "i förrgår" would "two days ago" also work as a translation?
It should. I would usually say "two days ago" rather than "the day before yesterday"; I suspect that's probably a regional preference.
Would "I spoke to the doctors the day before" be an acceptable translation? Is it necessary to include the yesterday?
To me at least "the day before" would mean yesterday, not the day before that, which is meant here.
I talked with doctor the day before yesterday. Would this count as correct answer?
So.. can we say something like this ''förrförrgår'' for the day before the day before yesterday? :p
You can't find the word in a Swedish dictionary, but everybody would understand it of course. Proper Swedish is "för två dagar sen" or e.g. "i söndags" if it is Tuesday today.
Why is a change of word order in English not accepted? The day before yesterday I spoke to the doctors seems perfectly reasonable but is rejected.
