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sinóči last night; yesterday evening; during last night

bólje better

bólje in bólje, vedno bólje better and better
čim prej tem bólje the sooner the better
toliko bólje so much the better
tem bólje all the better
oziroma bólje (rečeno) or rather
bólje je (vzeti...) it is preferable (to take...)
zaradi tega mi ni prav nič bólje I am no whit the better for it
gre mu (ekonomsko) bólje he is better off
sedaj mi gre (zdravstveno) bólje I am getting better now
bólje bi storil, če bi ostal doma you'd better stay at home, pogovorno you better stay at home
bólje ne! (= tega Vam ne svetujem) you had better not!
sinoči, oziroma bólje rečeno, davi smo imeli vihar last night, or rather, this morning there was a storm
ni mogel napraviti bólje kot... he could not have done better than...
bólje se počutiti to feel (ali to be) better
posli gredo bólje business is improving
obrniti se, spremeniti se na bólje to change for the better
bólje drži ga kot lovi ga a bird in hand is worth two in the bush

níčla nought; (pri toplomeru) zero, pl zero(e)s; cipher; (ledišče) freezing point, zero; (nepomembna oseba) nonentity; (pri telefoniranju) o

10° pod (nad) níčlo ten degrees below (above) zero
pri 5° pod níčlo at five degrees below zero
termometer je sinoči padel na níčlo the temperature (ali thermometer) fell to zero last night
on je níčla (figurativno) he is a cipher
dodaj níčlo! add a nought!
izpusti dve níčli! omit two noughts!
biti enaki níčli to be nil
izenačiti z níčlo matematika to equate to zero
nastaviti na níčlo tehnika to zero
absolutna níčla absolute zero
biti na níčli to be at zero
pasti na níčlo to fall to zero

pripetíti se to happen; to chance; to occur (komu to someone), to come to pass, to come about; to befall (komu someone)

naj se pripeti, kar hoče whatever may befall
slučajno se je pripetilo, da... it happened that...
to se je pripetilo sinoči it happened last night
često se pripeti... it often happens (that)...
isti dogodek seje pripetil pretekli teden the same incident occurred last week

včéraj yesterday

včéraj zvečer (sinoči) yesterday evening, last night
včéraj zjutraj yesterday morning, pesniško arhaično yestermorn
včéraj teden yesterday week
šele včéraj only yesterday
nisem včéraj prišel na svet (figurativno) I wasn't born yesterday

zvečér in the evening

danes zvečér this evening, tonight
jutri zvečér tomorrow night
včeraj zvečér (sinoči) last night
v soboto zvečér on Saturday night