What are the days of the week in Spanish with Pronunciation?

Topics

1. How do you say the days of the week in Spanish?
2. Common vocabulary
3. What are the days of the week in Spanish and Pronunciation?
4. Days of the week in Spanish meaning
5. What’s the first day of the week in Spain?
6. Spanish days of the week abbreviations

Spanish Vocabulary List: How do you say the days of the week in Spanish?

So you’re a random dude in Spain (let’s just say you’re called John Wick)… you are in class, happily listening away and suddenly your Spanish professor says, “John Wick, we are going to have an examination on Monday! ” OH NO!!! The only problem is that he has said the sentence not in English but in Spanish. You caught that there’s an exam as everyone is shocked. You do not know the names of the different days of the week in Spanish! OH NO!!!! For once, John Wick is screwed!

More common scenarios are:

1. You need to call your doctor and set up an appointment
2. You need to visit your friend
3. Your girlfriend says that she’ll marry you only if you know the days of the week…. OK FINE! This one is very unlikely or borderline impossible. If it happens, I’m a god for predicting this!

So I’m guessing, by know you know that you absolutely need to know the vocabulary of different days the week in Spanish and you also need to pronounce them correctly. So in this lesson, we will learn about the seven days of the week in Spanish and how to pronounce them.

What are the days of the week in Spanish?

In this section, we are will learn about the vocabulary for Monday to Sunday in Spanish. We will also learn about the different associated vocabulary for days of the week. If you wanna get to even super basic Spanish fluency, the word list for the different days of the week in Spanish is a good point to start with.

Other Spanish wordlists to memorize

What day of the week is it?

Here’s another important set which will help you learn a lot about the days of the week in Spanish. Basically it teaches about the order of the days of the week!

What are the common vocabulary related days of the week in Spanish ?

In this section, we are will learn about the associated common vocabulary for days of the week in Spanish.

What is the Gender of days of the week in Spanish?

• In Spanish, all days of the week are masculine nouns

What is the pronunciation for days of the week in Spanish?

Now let us learn about the super core topic… learning to say things the right way or to put it into better terms, learning to pronounce the days of the week in Spanish.

Origin of words: Meaning of the Days of the week in Spanish

Have you ever wondered why is it called Lunes? Like what does Lunes mean? Here in this section we will learn about the origin of the different names of the days of the week in Spanish.

Why is Monday called Lunes in Spanish?

• Lunes is the Spanish translation for “Monday” comes from the Spanish word Luna which means “the moon”.
• Therefore, Monday in Spanish literally translates to “moon-day”.
• Basically Monday is dedicated to the moon.

Why is Tuesday called martes  in Spanish?

• The origin of the word martes which is the Spanish translation for “Tuesday” comes from the planet Mars.
• Martes, the Spanish for Tuesday, is named after the Roman God of War, Mars.
• The name literally translates to “Day of Mars”.

Why is Wednesday called miercoles in Spanish?

• The origin of the word Miercoles which is the Spanish translation for “Wednesday” comes from the planet Mercury.
• Miercoles is named after Mercury — the Roman god of speed.
• The name literally translates to “Day of Mercury”.

Why is Thursday called jueves in Spanish?

• The origin of the word jueves which is the Spanish translation for “Thursday” comes from the planet Jupiter.
• Thursday and Jueves, like the other days of the week, come from the Germanic and Latin names for the same God: the King of the Gods, the God known as “Zeus” to the Greeks, and also as “Jupiter.”
• The name literally translates to “Day of Jupiter”.

Why is Friday called viernes in Spanish?

• The origin of the word viernes which is the Spanish translation for “Friday” comes from the planet Venus, the Goddess of Love.
• The name literally translates to “Day of Venus”.

What is the meaning of sábado (or Saturday) in Spanish?

• This Spanish day name comes from sabbatum, the Latin rendering of Greek sabbaton, from Hebrew shabbat ‘to cease, rest.
• The name literally translates to “Day of Shabbat”.

What is the meaning of domingo (or Sunday) in Spanish?

• The origin of the word domingo is from Old Spanish domingo, from Latin dominicus.
• The name literally translates to “Day of the Lord”.

What’s the first day of the week in Spain?

• In Spain, the first day of the week is Monday or “lunes”.
• Days are counted from Monday until Sunday.
• In a few countries, days are counted from Sunday until Saturday. Basically it means that the week starts on Sunday as opposed to Monday in Spain.
• In Islamic nations, days are counted from Friday until Thursday.

Spanish days of the week abbreviations

Easy peasy… There are two kinds of abbreviation for days of the week in Spanish, with 2 letters and with 3 letters. And thankfully both abbreviations are the first 2 letters of the word and the first 3 letters of the word.

When to Capitalise Days of the Week 

• GREAT NEWS FOR YOU!!! The days of the week in Spanish DO NOT HAVE capital letters.
• The days of the week in Spanish are not capitalized.
• They are capitalized at the beginning of a sentence (duh… logical)

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