#past reference

• The day before yesterday — A popular or regional adverbial variant for the standard term 'altăieri' (the day before yesterday) or 'mai dăunăzi' (the other day), used in the daily speech of certain rural areas in Romania to indicate a recently passed day, usually situated two days prior to the moment of speaking or in a very near and indefinite past.
• In the past — At another temporal point, either located in the distant or indefinite past (once, in olden times) or placed in an uncertain future (on a subsequent occasion). This temporal operator serves as a dissociative anchoring point, removing the utterance from the strict coordinates of the immediate present and placing it within an alternative chronological horizon.