Spanish Word of the Day
Saturday, June 22, 2013
lunes, noun
Monday
Monday
Like other Spanish days of the week, lunes is not written with a capital letter and it is masculine. And like other days of the week ending in ‘-es’, such as martes, the plural of lunes is the same as the singular.
todos los lunes
every Monday
Jugamos los lunes.
We play on Mondays.
To talk about last Monday you use pasado, and to talk about next Monday you use the article and que viene:
el lunes pasado
last Monday
el lunes que viene
next Monday
Notice that in the next example there is no ‘on’ in Spanish:
La vi el lunes.
I saw her on Monday.
It seems English speakers aren’t the only ones who don’t like Mondays. There’s a Latin American expression hacer San Lunes, which means to stay away from work on Monday.
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