Language/Vietnamese/Vocabulary/Days-of-the-Week

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Week Tuần
Day Ngày
Monday Thứ hai
Tuesday Thứ ba
Wednesday Thứ tư
Thursday Thứ năm
Friday Thứ sáu
Saturday Thứ bảy
Sunday Chủ nhật
Weekdays Ngày thường (normal days = not weekends)
Weekend Cuối tuần

Fact: As you can see, Monday in Vietnam is considered the first day of the week. But "ngày Thứ hai" means "second day", "ngày Thứ ba" means "third day" and go on until "ngày Thứ bảy".

This comes from Portuguese. In the past, some Portuguese propagandist came to Vietnam.

They used "segunda-feira" (means: second fair) to call the first day of their week, "terça-feira" (means: third fair) to call the second day,... "sábado" (rest day) falls on Saturday, but Vietnamese changed it into "ngày Thứ bảy" (seventh day).

Sunday is "domingo", which means God's day. "Chủ nhật" originally is "Chúa nhật" - God's day.

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