German Days

➤ Usage and Grammar of Days in German

In the German language, all days of the week are categorized as masculine nouns, thus they always take the definite article "der". A fundamental capitalization rule in German dictates that all nouns, including the days of the week, must start with an uppercase letter. When expressing that an event occurs on a specific day, the prepositional contraction "am" (a combination of an + dem) is utilized, such as in am Montag (on Monday). If one wishes to describe a recurring action that happens every week on a particular day, the day is transformed into an adverb by adding an "s" at the end and using lowercase letters (e.g., montags meaning "on Mondays" or "every Monday"). These temporal markers are essential for scheduling, formal correspondence, and daily conversational structures.

German	English	Pronunciation
der Montag	Monday	der mon-taak
der Dienstag	Tuesday	der dins-taak
der Mittwoch	Wednesday	der mit-voh
der Donnerstag	Thursday	der don-ers-taak
der Freitag	Friday	der fray-taak
der Samstag	Saturday	der zams-taak
der Sonntag	Sunday	der zon-taak