Jour Francophone: Le Rythme Du Weekend

Mastering something as essential as thedays of the week in French may prove more practical than you think. Paris is always a good idea, but what if you miss your_mardi_ reservation at the #1 restaurant in Paris because you show up on_mercredi_ instead? We don’t want that to happen. That’s why it’s always best to dive into learning French by mastering the essentials first: how to say “hello ”, “you’re welcome ” and the days of the week.

If “a day” is_un jour_ in French and “a week” is_une semaine_ , it may also be useful to know that “the days of the week” is “les jours de la semaine” . Now let’s see how fast you can learn all seven days of the week_en français_ .

Days of the week in French

The days of the week in French are:

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French	English
lundi	Monday
mardi	Tuesday
mercredi	Wednesday
jeudi	Thursday
vendredi	Friday
samedi	Saturday
dimanche	Sunday

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Easy enough, aren’t they? If you are not completely sure about the pronunciation, here’s how you’d pronounce them in English:

lundi – “lun-dee”
mardi – “mar-dee”
mercredi – “mare-creu-dee”
jeudi – “zheu-dee”
vendredi – “von-dre-dee”
samedi – “sum-dee”
dimanche – “dee-monsh”

Now repeat them a few times to make sure they stick and let’s move on to some context. Here are some useful French expressions related to time and the days of the week:

un jour – a day
aujourd’hui – today
hier – yesterday
avant-hier – the day before yesterday
demain – tomorrow
après-demain – the day after tomorrow
Quel jour est-ce ? – What day is it?
Quel jour tombe ton anniversaire cette année ? – What day is your birthday this year?
On peut aller au restaurant jeudi. – We could go to the restaurant on Thursday.
Je ne travaille pas le vendredi. – I don’t work on Fridays.
hebdomadaire – weekly
dans trois jours – in three days time
le week-end – the weekend
jours ouvrables – working days (Monday to Friday)
du lundi au vendredi – from Monday to Friday
Le mardi est le deuxième jour de la semaine. – Tuesday is the second day of the week.

Planning to spend an entire week in France? Dont stop at_les jours de la semaine en français_ . French people are known to be proud of their language and heritage. Surprise them with your French skills and go beyond “Friday” in French with these 100+ French travel phrases . You’ll thank me later.

Usage rules

One more thing before you go. To make sure you are using your newly acquired French days of the week correctly, don’t forget that:

the days of the week are not capitalized in French – unless, of course, they appear at the beginning of a sentence;
the French week starts on Monday;
days of the week are all masculine in French – this means you’ll always have to use masculine articles (le and un) and masculine adjectives when talking about the days of the week. For example, if you want to say “the last Friday of the month was rainy” in French, you say “le dernier vendredi du mois était pluvieux”;
in contrast to le jour , la journée (which also translates to “day”) is a feminine noun that refers to a longer period of time during which something might happen. Jour, on the other hand, represents a precise moment, a unit of time. For example: “Je te rendrai visite dans la journée” (“I’ll visit you during the day”) is different from “Je t’appelle dans deux jours” (“I’ll call you in two days”).
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Jour Francophone: Le Rythme Du Weekend