Swedish adverb· top 1,000 most common
igår
yesterday
Meaning
yesterday
In Swedish: dagen före idag
Practise igår
1 / 1What does igår mean?
Questions
What does igår mean in English?
igår means “yesterday”.
Where the course teaches it
- Swedish past tense verb conjugationComplete Swedish – Season 1
- Swedish words ending in -ensComplete Swedish – Season 1
- An overview of Swedish noun pluralsComplete Swedish – Season 1
- Swedish prepositions: på and tillComplete Swedish – Season 1
- The Swedish continuous past: taladeComplete Swedish – Season 1
- Swedish word order with time expressionsComplete Swedish – Season 1
Origin
From Old Norse í gær, í gjár (“yesterday”) (whence Icelandic í gær and Faroese í gjár).
Nearby common words
igår is number 625 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary