If you are currently in the process of learning English, you just need to know the name of the days of the week in English. The topic is simple, the words are simple, but meanwhile they will definitely come in handy during everyday communication with native speakers or in the office when you work with programs in English.
How easy is it to remember the days of the week in English?
Below you can see the days of the week with transcription in English. Read them aloud. Take your time, repeat each name several times. You can also open the translator app on your smartphone and listen to these words so that they settle better in your memory. It will be more efficient than just reading the days of the week in English with translation.
As you know, words are best learned in context. Therefore, under each of the days of the week in English, read the phrases that serve as context for these words. The main task now is to remember them, so try to read the sentences with expression, coloring them emotionally. This is a great way to learn them faster and more reliably. It really works much better than just learning the days of the week in English with translation. Turn on your imagination and come up with your own associations for each of the words. Best of all, of course, immediately in English - after all, your task is to learn the days of the week in English, in Russian you already know them very well.
But what to do if, after all, new words just don't want to fit in your head? A good way to learn the days of the week in English is to hang a calendar in English in your home or workplace. Choose a font that is large and bright. You want words to stand out: every time you plan a meeting or business and refer to your calendar, you will see the names of the days of the week in English.
Table with translation, transcription and examples
| Name | Transcription | Translation | Example |
| Monday | ['mʌndei] | Monday |
- Are you all right? - I am okay, yes. I just hate Mondays, and you know it. - Are you okay? - I'm fine, yes. I just hate Mondays and you know it. |
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| Tuesday | ['tju:zdei] | Tuesday |
- Hey, I have news for you. John will arrive on Tuesdaymorning. - Hey, I have news for you. John will arrive on Tuesday morning. |
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| Wednesday | ['wenzdei] | Wednesday |
- Good bye! See you on Wednesday. - Goodbye! See you Wednesday. |
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| Thursday | [ˈθɜːzdei] | Thursday |
- What day is it today, Tom? - Today is Thursday. - What day is it today, Tom? - Today is Thursday. |
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| Friday | ['fraidei] | Friday |
- Friday is our half day off. - On Friday we have a short day [at work]. |
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| Saturday | ['sætədei] | Saturday |
- Just imagine, we go shopping every Saturday. I'm tired of it. - Keep calm, Zeek. My wife and I go shopping every Saturday too. I don't like it, but she does. - Just imagine, we go shopping every Saturday. I'm already tired of this. - Calm down, Zeke. My wife and I also go shopping every Saturday. I don't like it, but she loves it. |
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| Sunday | ['sʌndei] | Sunday |
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Now you are familiar with the days of the week in English along with their translation. As you can see, everything is simple here: only the first half of the word changes, and the second always remains in its place. Doesn't it sound much simpler than in Russian?
Learn the days of the week in English with idioms
By the way, there are many interesting idioms about the days of the week in English. Here are just a few of them. If you memorize at least a few of these idioms, you can make your speech more lively and, of course, better understand native speakers. Let's try!
- Blue Monday - so briefly you can express what a difficult Monday is, how difficult it is to go to work after the weekend. The phrase eloquently reflects the longing for the past weekend.
- Monday feeling - Americans say this, expressing a feeling of disgust at work when there is no desire to work after the weekend at all. Don't most of us know the Monday feeling?
- Black Monday - 1) If you heard this idiom in a conversation, then the expression may be slang. It is used by students, and it means the first day after their holidays. It is easy to imagine with what reluctance students are taken to study after the holidays, how they do not like this date. 2) Also, these words denote Monday on St. Thomas' week (church).
- To keep Saint Monday - the phrase means "rest with a hangover." Hereno comment.
- Man Friday - a devoted servant, a person who can help and who can be trusted (such an expression appeared on behalf of Friday's character in the book "Robinson Crusoe").
- Girl Friday - an office assistant with a low position; girl working as a secretary.
- With a similar meaning, they also say: "a person Friday".
- To have a Friday face/ a Friday look - to have a gloomy expression, a kind of sad face. To imagine this well, remember, for example, the faces of passengers on the subway early on Monday morning.
- Good Friday - (church): Good Friday, Friday of Holy Week.
- Saturday night special - there can be several meanings here: 1) special "Saturday offer" - sale, goods with a good discount; 2) Saturday evening edition, hastily filmed program; 3) cheap (slang expression); 4) also called a cheap pocket pistol (slang expression); 5) "Saturday night surprise" - a situation in the United States where someone suddenly tries to take over a company by publicly offering to buy shares at a fixed price. Often such an offer is limited in time until the end of the week, and the deal occurs at the end of the week.
- A month of Sundays is quite a long time. A similar expression in Russian would be the phrase "whole eternity". For example: "How long have you been choosing a dress? I've been waiting for you for ages!".
- When two Sundays come together can literally be translated "when two Sundays meet", and thismeans never. The phrase is comparable to our phraseological units “after a rain on Thursday”, “when the cancer whistles on the mountain” will also fit here.
- Sunday's child - 1) a child who was born on Sunday; 2) lucky person.
- Sunday driver - 1) a driver who only drives on Sundays/weekends; 2) a bad driver, slow, perhaps inexperienced (the phrase seems to hint that such a bad driver can only drive on Sundays when there is not so much traffic on the roads).
- Sunday clothes or Sunday best - the best (beautiful, festive) outfits. Outfit for some special occasions. The expression originated from the tradition of wearing the newest and finest clothes to church services on Sunday.
Repetition is the mother of learning
Now that you've spruced up the days of the week in English a little by reading examples and idioms with them, you'll definitely remember them. The main thing - do not forget to repeat! One of the best memorization techniques is this: you need to repeat the word immediately after learning, then after half an hour, then after a few hours, after a day, after 2-3 weeks, and finally after a couple of months. This repetition mode was developed on the basis of patterns that were identified by the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus back in 1885. He was seriously interested in the experimental study of memory. The "Memory Curve" he introduced is well known throughout the world, and the memorization technique described above is also widely used.
Try this method and you, then the new word will be firmly imprinted in yourmemory!
