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# saturday

«saturday» in Mova's school dictionary: **a day of the week** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Saturday, Saturdays)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Saturday is a day of the week. It comes after Friday and before Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#m1)

2) Saturday and Sunday make the weekend, when most children have no school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a day in time problems; things done on Saturday; counting Saturdays in some weeks; a week is 7 days. In everyday life: Saturday sport, Saturday jobs, shopping, Saturday morning cartoons. Phrases: «on Saturday», «on Saturdays», «Saturday morning», «this Saturday», «a Saturday job».

### examples

- On Saturday he earned 20 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x1)
- She swims every Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x2)
- The fair is on Saturday and Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x3)
- How many Saturdays in 4 weeks? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x4)
- I play netball on Saturday mornings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x5)
- Saturday comes after Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x6)
- We are going to a party this Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x7)
- My big sister has a Saturday job at the café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x8)
- Now, the next day was Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/#x9)

### note

Always a capital S. «On Saturday» (one) or «on Saturdays» (every week). Short form «Sat». Maths: a name of a day; it can set which days to count. Trap: there is one Saturday in every 7 days, so 4 weeks have 4 Saturdays.

### In the corpora

- [What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so the answer is Saturday, xīngqīliù.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/3/)
- [Ruby cleaned the hutch on Saturday, said sorry, and fed him every day after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/3/)
- [On Saturday the family went to confession.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry/4/)
- [Oliver said sorry, and on Saturday he played with Alfie the whole morning — the rocket, two spaceships and a moon base.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/4/)
- [On Saturday he went to confession and told the priest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «saturday» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saturday/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.