Spanish Days of the Week

One of the first things you should learn in any language is how to talk about the days of the week. In Spanish this is no different than in any other language. For starters a week is una semana in Spanish. La semana is as you can see a female noun. When we talk of a publication as a "weekly", in other words a noun then you would call it un semanario. If instead you are using weekly as an adjective (as in a weekly appointment) you might say cita semenal. As an adjective semenalmente.

Today is hoy. Ayer is yesterday and mañana is tomorrow. (Yes mañana is also morning, so to say tomorrow morning you may hear mañana por la mañana.)

In Spanish the days of the week are not capitalized as they are in English.


lunes is the Spanish word for Monday. I always associated it with the word Moon and how close Moon and Mon- are....
martes is the Spanish word for Tuesday.
miércoles is the Spanish word for Wednesday - it has lots of syllables just like Wednesday is a longer word in English.
jueves is the Spanish word for Thursday.
viernes is the Spanish word for Friday.
sábado is the Spanish word for Saturday.
domingo is the Spanish word for Sunday.

Now, sometimes you might hear or see someone write about their Saturday routine.... which would be sabatino/a. So, when you use Saturday as an adjective it's sabatino. I don't (yet) know of equivalents for the other days of the week. But, this is an example that I have run across in reading a book not too long ago.

All of the days of the week in Spanish are masculine nouns and so if talking about just one you would use el, and multiple Mondays it would be los. So, if you talk about walking on Saturday.... Voy a caminar el sábado. Or, say you go for a walk every Saturday... Camino los sábados.

It's important to learn the days of the week, of course, one approach that you can take is to just jotting them down on a notecard and reciting them, reading over them a few times a day. Another way of course, is to make use of a flashcard program to memorize them. You may also make up a sentence or a song that might help you remember them.

With most words, it's pointless to think about any particular order, but with the days of the week I remember liking to learn them in sequential order. To be honest there was a time when I got Tuesdays and Thursdays switched and memorizing them in chronological order helped me to get that straight.

Good luck mastering the Spanish days of the week!