Hi everybody!
In todays lesson we will be learning how to say the names of the days of the week in Estonian.
The names of the days of the week:
Monday - Esmaspäev
Tuesday - Teisipäev
Wednesday - Kolmapäev
Thursday - Neljapäev
Friday - Reede
Saturday - Laupäev
Sunday - Pühapäev
Word PÄEV means DAY
Day - Päev
The first 4 days will be easy to remember because they literally give you the order of the days.
Esmaspäev
Esmas / päev
First - esimene
The first 4 days will be easy to remember because they literally give you the order of the days.
Esmaspäev
Esmas / päev
First - esimene
Teisipäev
Teisi / päev
Second - teine
Second - teine
Kolmapäev
Kolma / päev
Kolma / päev
Third - kolmas
Neljapäev
Nelja / päev
Forth - Neljas
Obviously Friday is such special day that we don't even bother to call it a day XD - reede. I have no idea why it is like that :). If anyone know's let me know ;).
Forth - Neljas
Obviously Friday is such special day that we don't even bother to call it a day XD - reede. I have no idea why it is like that :). If anyone know's let me know ;).
Pühapäev
Püha - holy, we also call celebrative holidays - püha
Jõulupüha - Christmas
Püha - holy, we also call celebrative holidays - püha
Jõulupüha - Christmas
More useful vocabulary:
week - nädal
today - täna
tomorrow - homme
yesterday - eile
the day after tomorrow - ülehomme
the day before yesterday - üleeile
workday - tööpäev
restday - puhkepäev
Example sentences:
1. Today is Monday. - Täna on esmaspäev
Täna - today
is - on
1. Today is Monday. - Täna on esmaspäev
Täna - today
is - on
2. Tomorrow is Tuesday. - Homme on teisipäev.
Homme - Tomorrow
3. Yesterday was Sunday. - Eile oli pühapäev.
Eile - Yesterday
4. The day before yesterday was a fun day. - Üleeile oli tore päev.
Üleeile - the day before yesterday
oli - is in past tense
tore - fun
* In Estonian we do not write the days of the week with the capital letter, unless it is in the start of a sentence. Also for further information, Estonian language generally doesn't like capital letters. In English people tend to use them a lot but in estonian it's probably safer not to use capital letters, unless it's a name (person, city, country [however the people in the country like Estonian would be lower case - eestlane, same with he languages eesti keel] place etc.)
** Estonian language doesn't have future tense. It is expressed by using relevant words like "tomorrow". Great example is a sentence that is often used in songs or other places similar. Oli, on ja jääb. It was, it is and it stays. Oli (was) is past tense of on (is), jääb comes from a word jääma - to stay and could be used anywhere, there is no future tense the change comes from TA JÄÄB - he/she/it stays. However it will give us the idea of eternity.
Hope that explanation will help you to understand how the language works better :)
Good luck!
Hope that explanation will help you to understand how the language works better :)
Good luck!