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

Days of the week (Dias da semana)

The days in portuguese are very simple.

There should only be a certain care in writing because in Portuguese words have gender (masculine and feminine).

Masculine days (Dias masculinos)

• Sunday (Domingo)
• Saturday (Sábado)

Feminine days (Dias femininos)

• Monday (Segunda)
• Tuesday (Terça)
• Wednesday (Quarta)
• Thursday (Quinta)
• Friday (Sexta)

For example, the writing in English "The saturday", translated into Portuguese would be "o sábado".

You can not put "A sábado", this way is wrong, the correct one would be "O sábado" with the definite article "O" to represent male when writing in Portuguese.

Likewise occurs with the definite article "A" that is used to represent female. For example, writing in English would be "The monday", translated into Portuguese would be "A segunda". You can not put the definite article "O" because "monday" is a feminine word.

Therefore it is very important to pay attention at the time of writing not to confuse the articles. Unlike English, where most words have no definite gender.

Day in English	Dias em Português	Gender
Sunday	Domingo	Masculine
Monday	Segunda or Segunda-feira	Feminine
Tuesday	Terça or Terça-feira	Feminine
Wednesday	Quarta or Quarta-feira	Feminine
Thursday	Quinta or Quinta-feira	Feminine
Friday	Sexta or Sexta-feira	Feminine
Saturday	Sábado	Masculine

Some examples using the days of the week (Alguns exemplos usando os dias da semana)

• Tomorrow is not sunday!

Amanhã não é domingo!

• Today is monday!

Hoje é segunda.

• See you on tuesday

Vejo você na terça

• Why not wednesday?

Por que não quarta?

• Thursday is a day of the week.

Quinta é um dia da semana.

• I like friday.

Eu gosto da sexta.

• The food is for saturday

A comida é para o sábado.