--- title: Days of the week and months — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Days of the week and months», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Most French days are named after the Moon and the planets: lundi is the Moon's day, mardi is Mars's day, mercredi Mercury's, jeudi Jupiter's an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / Days of the week and months # Days of the week and months Lesson 10 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/0/) — Most French days are named after the Moon and the planets: lundi is the Moon's day, mardi is Mars's day, mercredi Mercury's, jeudi Jupiter's and vendredi Venus's. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/1/) — English hides old gods in its days too: Monday is the Moon's day and Thursday is Thor's day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/2/) — In French, days and months are written with a small letter, so you write lundi and janvier, not Lundi and Janvier, unless they start a sentence. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/3/) — A French calendar starts the week on lundi; picture Liam reading it as if Sunday came first and turning up for football a day late. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/4/) — Picture Léa in Marseille: le mercredi, je n'ai pas école, "on Wednesdays I don't have school", because many French primary schools have no lessons on Wednesday. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/5/) — The days are lundi (Monday), mardi (Tuesday), mercredi (Wednesday), jeudi (Thursday), vendredi (Friday), samedi (Saturday), dimanche (Sunday). - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/6/) — lundi comes from the Moon, mardi from Mars, mercredi from Mercury, jeudi from Jupiter and vendredi from Venus. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/7/) — Days and months are written with a small letter in French unless they start a sentence. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/8/) — Many French primary schools have no lessons on Wednesday, and children do clubs or sport; le mercredi (with le) means "on Wednesdays, every week". - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/9/) — Une semaine ("un suh-MEN") is a week; French calendars start the week on lundi. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/10/) — The months are janvier, février, mars, avril, mai, juin, juillet, août, septembre, octobre, novembre, décembre. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/11/) — août (August) sounds like "OOT" or "OO"; the a is silent and the little hat sits on the u. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/12/) — juin ("ZHWAN") is June and juillet ("zhwee-YAY") is July: the shorter word is the earlier month. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/13/) — "In" a month is en: en mai (in May), en janvier; you can also say au mois de mai. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/14/) — Quel jour sommes-nous ? means "What day is it?"; the answer is Nous sommes mardi, or, more casually, On est mardi. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/16/) — In France the weekend is le week-end, with a hyphen; in Quebec people often say la fin de semaine. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/17/) — In the old Roman calendar the year began in March, so September (sept = 7) was the seventh month, October (oct = 8) the eighth, November (nov = 9) the ninth and December (déc = 10) the tenth. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/18/) — Slang here: "lowkey" means a bit; "no cap" means honestly; "well wonky" (UK) means very odd; "heaps" (Australia) means lots of; "dead" (Liverpool) means very; "la" (Liverpool) means mate; "tamping" (Wales) means fuming; "wicked" (Vermont) means very; "sus" means odd. - ← previous: [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/) - next →: [Dates and birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)