weekend

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /wiːk.ˈɛnd/, X-SAMPA: /wi:k."End/
• (US) IPA: /ˈwik.ɛnd/, X-SAMPA: /"wik.End/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

weekend (plural weekends)

1. The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday. Occasionally abbreviated to w/e.
   • 1903, Francis Markham; Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849-1855, page 34:

     ... often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the weekend — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.

Usage notes

Historically in North America and parts of Europe, people would often work on Saturday as well, or at least until noon on Saturday. Thus the "weekend" might begin at noon or later on Saturday in older texts.

To describe the soonest upcoming weekend:

• (UK, New Zealand) "at the weekend", "on the weekend", "this weekend", "for the weekend"
  • 1886, New Zealand Parliament, “Parliamentary debates”, volume 324, page 2371: 

    Let them work at their ordinary jobs during the week, and then take them out of circulation at the weekend, which is usually the time when the trouble is ...

  • 2009, Great Britain House of Commons: Business and Enterprise Committee, “Pre-appointment Hearing with the Chairman-elect of Ofcom, Dr. Colette Bowe”, page 16:

    Whether it is on the BBC, ITV or commercial radio does not really matter. ...can give you a radio example of two things I was listening to at the weekend.

• (US, Canada) "on the weekend", "this weekend", "for the weekend" ("at the weekend" is not used)
  • 2002, United States Senate: Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 2002, page 722:

    I am going to Moscow on the weekend to participate in the discussion, ...

Alternative forms

• week-end

Related terms

• weekender
• dirty weekend
• weekday
• weekend warrior
• long weekend

Translations

break in the working week

• Afrikaans: naweek (af)
• Arabic: نهاية الأسبوع (ar) (nihaayat al-'usbuu`) f, عطلة الأسبوع (ar) (`aTlat al-'usbuu`) f
• Basque: asteburu (eu), astebukaera (eu)
• Breton: dibenn-sizhun (br) m
• Catalan: cap de setmana (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 週末 (cmn), 周末 (cmn) (zhōumò)

• Czech: konec týdne (cs) m, víkend (cs) m
• Danish: weekend (da) c
• Dutch: weekend (nl) n, weekeinde (nl) n
• Esperanto: semajnofino (eo)
• Estonian: nädalavahetus (et)
• Faroese: vikuskifti (fo) n
• Finnish: viikonloppu (fi)
• French: fin de semaine (fr) f, weekend (fr) m
• German: Wochenende (de) n
• Greek: σαββατοκύριακο (el) (savvatokýriako) n
• Greenlandic: weekendi (kl)
• Hawaiian: hopena pule
• Hebrew: סוף שבוע (he) m (Friday and Saturday in Israel)
• Hungarian: hétvége (hu)
• Icelandic: helgi (is) f
• Indonesian: akhir pekan
• Irish: deireadh seachtaine (ga) m
• Italian: weekend (it) m, fine settimana (it) m and f
• Japanese: 週末 (ja) (しゅうまつ, shūmatsu)

• Korean: 주말 (ko) (jumal) (週末 (ko))
• Lao: ທ້າຍສັບປະດາ (lo)
• Latgalian: nedeļgols m
• Lithuanian: savaitgalis (lt) m
• Macedonian: викенд (mk) (víkend) m
• Malay: hujung minggu (ms)
• Maori: mutunga wiki (mi)
• Navajo: Damóo yázhí dóó Damóo
• Persian: آخر هفته (fa) (âxer-e hafte)
• Polish: weekend (pl) m
• Portuguese: final de semana (pt), fim de semana (pt)
• Romanian: sfârșit de săptămână (ro) n, weekend (ro) n
• Russian: уик-энд (ru) (uik-énd) m, выходные (ru) (vyxodnýje) m pl, конец недели (konéc nedéli) m
• Scottish Gaelic: deireadh-seachdain (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: викенд (sh) m

  Roman: vikend (sh) m

• Slovak: víkend (sk) m
• Slovene: vikend (sl), konec tedna (sl)
• Sotho: wikente (st)
• Spanish: fin de semana (es) m
• Swahili: wikendi (sw)
• Swedish: helg (sv) c, veckoslut (sv) n
• Thai: สุดสัปดาห์ (th)
• Turkish: hafta sonu (tr)
• Vietnamese: cuối tuần (vi)
• Welsh: penwythnos (cy) m

Verb

weekend (third-person singular simple present weekends, present participle weekending, simple past and past participle weekended)

1. To spend the weekend.

   We'll weekend at the beach.

Adjective

weekend (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to or for the weekend.

   I'm wearing my weekend shoes

2. Occurring at the weekend.

   a weekend break

Translations

Of, relating to or for the weekend

• Hungarian: hétvégi (hu)
• Macedonian: викенд- (víkend-)

• Polish: weekendowy (pl) m
• Swahili: wikendi (sw)

Occurring at the weekend

• Hungarian: hétvégi (hu)
• Macedonian: викенд- (víkend-)

• Polish: weekendowy (pl) m
• Swahili: wikendi (sw)

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Danish

Etymology

From English weekend.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /viːɡɛnd/, [ˈviːˌɡ̊ɛnˀd̥], [ˈviːˌɡ̊ɛnd̥], [ˈwiːˌɡ̊ɛnd̥]

Noun

weekend c (singular definite weekenden, plural indefinite weekender)

1. weekend

Inflection

    Inflection of weekend

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	weekend	weekenden	weekender	weekenderne
genitive	weekends	weekendens	weekenders	weekendernes

See also

• Weekend on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʋikɛnt/

• Audio

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Noun

weekend n (plural weekenden or weekends, diminutive weekendje)

1. weekend

Synonyms

• weekeinde

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French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wi.kɛnd/

Noun

weekend m (plural weekends)

1. weekend

Synonyms

• fin de semaine

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Italian

Etymology

From English.

Noun

weekend m (invariable)

1. weekend

Alternative forms

• week-end

Synonyms

• fine settimana

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Polish

Etymology

From English weekend

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwikɛn̪t̪/, rare: /ˈwikɛn̪d̪/

Noun

weekend m

1. weekend

Declension

    declension of weekend

	singular	plural
nominative	weekend	weekendy
genitive	weekendu	weekendów
dative	weekendowi	weekendom
accusative	weekend	weekendy
instrumental	weekendem	weekendami
locative	weekendzie	weekendach
vocative	weekendzie	weekendy

Derived terms

• weekendowy

See also

• w/e