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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nThe days of the week in Spanish, or los d\u00edas de la semana<\/em> are something you would usually learn pretty early on in your language-learning classes. But if you haven\u2019t fully got your head around them yet, don\u2019t worry! This guide will take you through exactly what the days of the week are, and how to use them in a sentence.<\/p>\n In Spanish, the days of the week are named after heavenly or spiritual figures because of their Greco-Roman origin. It might help you to remember them if you know what they are named after.<\/p>\n Monday \u2013 lunes<\/strong><\/p>\n (from luna<\/em>, meaning moon)<\/p>\n Tuesday \u2013 martes<\/strong><\/p>\n (from Marte<\/em>, meaning Mars)<\/p>\n Wednesday \u2013 mi\u00e9rcoles<\/strong><\/p>\n (from Mercurio<\/em>, meaning Mercury)<\/p>\n Thursday \u2013 jueves<\/strong><\/p>\n (from J\u00fapiter,<\/em> meaning Jupiter)<\/p>\n Friday \u2013 viernes<\/strong><\/p>\n (from Venus<\/em>)<\/p>\n Saturday \u2013 s\u00e1bado<\/strong><\/p>\n (from sabat<\/em>, the Hebrew word for rest)<\/p>\n Sunday \u2013 domingo<\/strong><\/p>\n (from Dominus, the Latin word for lord)<\/p>\n So, the days of the week in Spanish are lunes, martes, mi\u00e9rcoles, jueves, viernes, s\u00e1bado, domingo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Now you know what the days are, but how do you make them stick? Some ideas to remember the days of the week in Spanish are:<\/p>\n The Spanish days of the week are all masculine words. Although you will notice that some of them end in \u201cs\u201d, they are all singular as well.<\/p>\n When putting together sentences using days of the week in Spanish, those days absolutely must be preceded by a determiner. 99% of the time this will come in the form of the definite article, el,<\/em> because all the days of the week in Spanish are masculine and singular words. But as we will see below, there are also other possibilities for determiners.<\/p>\n Unlike in English, the days of the week in Spanish do not<\/em> begin with capital letters.<\/p>\n Remember that words ending in s<\/em> in Spanish do not<\/em> change in their plural form. This means that 5 out of the 7 days stay exactly the same in plural \u2013 yay!<\/p>\n Like English, Spanish has some days of the week which start with the same letters, so they need to have a method to know what day they are referring to when it is abbreviated.<\/p>\n The single letter abbreviations are: L<\/strong>, M<\/strong>, X<\/strong>, J<\/strong>, V<\/strong>, S<\/strong>, D<\/strong>. As you can see, they are all intuitive except mi\u00e9rcoles, <\/em>which is abbreviated with X<\/em>.<\/p>\n The two-letter abbreviations are: Lu<\/strong>, Ma<\/strong>, Mi<\/strong>, Ju<\/strong>, Vi<\/strong>, Sa<\/strong>, Do<\/strong>. It\u2019s more common to use two-letter abbreviations for the days of the week in Spanish.<\/p>\n When talking about days of the week in English, we almost always use prepositions with the days. The most common of these is \u201con\u201d, as in \u201con Monday\u201d. So, the most natural thing to want to do as a native speaker of English would be to say en<\/em> before a day of the week \u2013 however, this is incorrect in Spanish! Instead, we use the definite articles el<\/em> <\/strong>and los<\/em><\/strong> (literally meaning \u201cthe\u201d) to indicate that we are talking about a specific day (or specific days) of the week.<\/p>\n For ongoing occurrences, we use the plural \u201clos<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, and for one-off occurrences, we use the singular \u201cel<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n Ongoing:<\/strong> Yo voy a mi clase de baile los<\/strong> jueves. | I go to my dance class on<\/strong> Thursdays.<\/em><\/p>\n One-off:<\/strong> Mar\u00eda se va a encontrar con David el<\/strong> martes. | Maria is going to meet up with David on<\/strong> Tuesday. <\/em><\/p>\n The word \u201cevery\u201d is indicated in Spanish by the word todo<\/em>. If you are wanting to emphasize that something happens every<\/strong> week on a certain day, you can follow the same structure as above for ongoing happenings, and simply add in todos<\/em> before the los<\/em>. So we say todos los <\/strong>(days).<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n Compramos comida para llevar todos los<\/strong> viernes. | We buy takeaway food every Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n Helena y Juanita salen de fiesta todos los<\/strong> s\u00e1bados y domingos. | Helena and Juanita go out to party every Saturday and Sunday. To use the words \u201cbefore\u201d(antes<\/em>) and \u201cafter\u201d(despu\u00e9s<\/em>) in a sentence in Spanish, we need both the word and the preposition, \u201cde\u201d. When talking about the days of the week, there is the added detail of the article before the day, which is still very much needed. In this case, you would only really be talking about a specific day, so would only need \u201cel\u201d.<\/p>\n Remember that putting \u201cde\u201d and \u201cel\u201d together creates an obligatory contraction, so the correct construction is \u201cantes del <\/strong>(day)\u201d.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n Quiero verte antes del<\/strong> viernes. | I want to see you before<\/strong> Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n El documento estar\u00e1 hecho antes del<\/strong> mi\u00e9rcoles. | The document will be done before<\/strong> Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n Antonio va a hablar con ella despu\u00e9s del <\/strong>domingo. | Antonio is going to talk to her after <\/strong>Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n The word for until is hasta and does not require another preposition. So if we want to talk about something happening until a certain day, we simply say \u201chasta el <\/strong>(day)\u201d.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n Voy a estar en Londres hasta el <\/strong>lunes. | I will be in London until Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n Te lo presto hasta el<\/strong> s\u00e1bado. | I\u2019ll lend it to you until Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n Just like \u201cuntil\u201d, the word for \u201csince\u201d in Spanish is used on its own. It is followed by only the article when we are talking about the days of the week in Spanish. Hence, you should say \u201cdesde el <\/strong>(day)\u201d. When you use desde<\/em> with present tense verbs, it reads like the present perfect in English, so you can use either the Spanish present tense<\/a> or Spanish present perfect<\/a>.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n Estoy estundiando como un loco desde el<\/strong> martes. | I\u2019ve been studying like crazy since<\/strong> Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n No la veo en clase desde el<\/strong> s\u00e1bado. | I haven\u2019t seen her in class since<\/strong> Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n He estado en una nueva casa desde el <\/strong>domingo. | I\u2019ve been in a new house since<\/strong> Sunday.<\/p>\n Unlike the above words, next <\/em>is not a preposition but an adjective. That\u2019s why its Spanish equivalent (pr\u00f3ximo) <\/em>comes in a slightly different part of the phrase than the examples above. Pr\u00f3ximo <\/em>should appear in between the article and the day, so it will look something like \u201cel pr\u00f3ximo<\/strong> (day)\u201d.<\/p>\n Another way to express \u201cnext\u201d in Spanish which is slightly more colloquial is que viene<\/em>. This is an expression literally meaning \u201cthat comes\u201d, and in a sentence, it comes directly after the day. So, you should say \u201cel <\/strong>(day) que viene\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If you want to talk about a specific day of the next week, those two expressions are interchangeable.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n El martes que viene<\/strong> tengo una reuni\u00f3n con mi profesor. | Next<\/em><\/strong> Tuesday I have a meeting with my teac<\/em>her. <\/em><\/p>\n El<\/strong> pr\u00f3ximo<\/strong> viernes mi pap\u00e1 se va para Cambodia. | Next<\/em><\/strong> Friday my Dad is going to Cambodia.<\/em><\/p>\n Va a llover el jueves que viene<\/strong>. | Next<\/em><\/strong> Thursday it is going to rain.<\/em><\/p>\n Just like \u201cnext\u201d, \u201clast\u201d is also an adjective. However, the Spanish pasado<\/em> is a more traditional adjective in that it comes directly after<\/em> the noun, not before it. So, you will see \u201cel <\/strong>(day) pasado<\/strong>\u201d to mean that day of the last week.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n El mi\u00e9rcoles pasado<\/strong> fui a ver a mi hermana. | Last<\/em><\/strong> Wednesday I went to see my sister.<\/em><\/p>\n El lunes pasado<\/strong> Jorge se present\u00f3 al \u00faltimo examen. | Last<\/em><\/strong> Monday Jorge did his last exam.<\/em><\/p>\n The only time you don\u2019t <\/em>need an article when talking about days of the week in Spanish sentences is when you are talking about that day of the current week, using este<\/em>. This is because este <\/em>is of the same a word category as el<\/em> (known as determiners). Because there can only be one determiner in a given noun phrase, este <\/em>replaces el<\/em>.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/p>\n Me gustar\u00eda verte este<\/strong> viernes. | I would like to see you this<\/strong> Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n Este<\/strong> domingo Juan va a llamar. | This<\/em><\/strong> Sunday Juan is going to call.<\/em><\/p>\n Hopefully this little guide has given you a good idea about what the days of the week in Spanish are and how to use them! If you want to have a practise now, why not give Clozemaster a try?<\/p>\n Test your skills and see what you\u2019ve learned from this article by playing a selection of sentences with Spanish days of the week:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe days of the week in Spanish<\/h2>\n
How to remember the days of the week in Spanish<\/h2>\n
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Important things to know about the days of the week in Spanish<\/h2>\n
Days of the week in Spanish are masculine & singular<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The days of the week in Spanish need a determiner<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The days of the week in Spanish are not capitalized<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Forming the plural in days of the week in Spanish<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Abbreviating the days of the week in Spanish<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Using the days of the week in Spanish in a sentence<\/h2>\n
On \u2013 el\/los<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Every \u2013 todos los<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/em>(Note how you only need to say \u201ctodos los\u201d once, even if you are talking about more than one day.)<\/p>\nBefore & after \u2013 antes & despu\u00e9s<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Until \u2013 hasta<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Since \u2013 desde<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Next \u2013 pr\u00f3ximo\/que viene<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Last \u2013 pasado<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
This \u2013 este<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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