Learn words for days of the week: ponedeljek, torek, sreda, cetrtek, petek, sobota, nedelja.
Days od the week are nouns and have a gender like all other nouns. Word ending in -a are feminine, and words ending in consonant are masculine. Days of the week are always spelled in all lowercase.
If you're mentioning a day, you should use nominative case, whereas if you're mentioning when something happens on a certain day, you should use accusative with a "v" preposition. When events repeat weekly on a certain day, you need to use plural and "ob" preposition.
Examples:
Pondeljek je začetek tedna. (Monday is the beginning of the week.)
V ponedeljek se začne šola. (School starts on Monday.) You could also say "Šola se začne v ponedeljek."
Monday | ponedeljek (Monday) | v ponedeljek (on Monday) | ob ponedeljkih (on Mondays) |
Tuesday | torek | v torek | ob torkih |
Wednesday | sreda | v sredo | ob sredah |
Thursday | četrtek | v četrtek | ob četrtkih |
Friday | petek | v petek | ob petkih |
Saturday | sobota | v soboto | ob sobotah |
Sunday | nedelja | v nedeljo | ob nedeljah |