French grammar - The days of the week - Quel jour est-ce ? |
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Talking about days of the week in French has some nuances. • Asking about the day of the week we can say 'Which day are we?' - Quel jour sommes-nous ? • To say 'on' a particular day no preposition is needed. -- NOT sur samedi, NOT en samedi, NOT à samedi, NOT au samedi - just samedi. • To say 'every' some-day-of-the-week, we add the definite article. • All the days of the week are masculine. • The days of the week are not capitalized in French. • The French week starts on Monday. • les jours de la semaine means 'the days of the week' - all seven days. • les jours de semaine means 'weekdays' - Monday to Friday. -- en semaine also means 'during the (work) week' • le week-end means 'the week-end'. With the article le it means 'every weekend'. |
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Quel jour est-ce ? C'est lundi.
What day is it? It's Monday. |
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Quel jour sommes-nous ? Nous sommes mardi.
What day is it? It is Tuesday. |
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Quel jour est-on aujourd'hui ? aujourd'hui, on est mercredi.
What day is it today? Today is Wednesday. |
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Tu arrives quel jour ?
What day are you (familiar) arriving?
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J'arrive jeudi.
I arrive on Thursday.
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La réunion est vendredi.
The meeting is Friday. |
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Quels jours de la semaine travaillez-vous ?
What days of the week do you (formal) work? |
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Je ne travaille pas mercredi.
I don't work this Wednesday.
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Normalement, je ne travaille pas le mercredi.
Normally I don't work on Wednesdays.
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Je déteste le lundi.
I hate Mondays. |
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Le vendredi est mon jour de la semaine préféré.
Fridays are my favorite day of the week. |
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Nous mangeons des bagels au petit-déjeuner le samedi.
We eat bagels for breakfast on Saturdays. |
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Nous mangeons des bagels au petit-déjeuner tous les samedis.
We eat bagels for breakfast every Saturday.
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Vous entraînez-vous tous les jours de la semaine ?
Do you (formal) train every day of the week? |
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La boulangerie est ouverte tous les jours de la semaine sauf le dimanche.
The bakery is open every day of the week except Sundays. |
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On cuisine uniquement en semaine - le week-end, nous mangeons à l'extérieur.
We only cook on weekdays - on weekends we ate out. |
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Ce week-end, nous sommes allés à la plage.
This weekend we went to the beach. |
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Le week-end, nous nous reposons à la maison.
On weekends we rest at home. |
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Noël tombe quel jour cette année ?
On what day does Christmas fall this year? |
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