How do you sign “Yesterday” in ASL?
YESTERDAY: YESTERDAY in American Sign Language (ASL) points one day into the past. The video and animated demonstration below show the sign.
What does YESTERDAY mean in ASL?
YESTERDAY unlocks storytelling about the immediate past: what you did, what happened, what you saw. Past-time framing matters in a language without verb tenses, so time signs like this one carry the load English spreads across its verbs. Journaling prompts and morning check-ins make it one of the most exercised signs in an ASL classroom.
It rounds out the Lesson 31 time vocabulary.
📖 YESTERDAY is taught in Lesson 31 of ASL 101: Starting Out — Book 1 of the 216-Day Challenge →
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