Can I say weekends?

If you’re referring to just one particular set of a single Saturday and a Sunday-it’s a weekend. Otherwise, for more Saturdays and Sundays together, it’s weekends. Example- “I went shopping on the weekend.” “We used to go to our grandma’s on weekends.”

How do you pluralize weekends?

Weekend is the singular noun so it means one weekend. Weekends is the plural noun so we use it when there is more than one weekend.

How do you write weekends?

In English, the word for Saturday and Sunday is written “solid,” as weekend, no hyphen.

Is it these weekend or this weekend?

“this” is singular, “these” is plural. “this coming weekend” is a single chunk of time, so it needs a singular demonstrative adjective. Interestingly, this/these is the only adjective in English to have a singular and a plural form.

Is Saturday a weekend?

More strictly speaking, the weekend is thought to consist of Saturday and Sunday (often regardless of whether the calendar week is considered to begin on Sunday or Monday). Any additional days off on either side of a weekend are often considered part of the weekend.

Which is correct Happy weekend or happy weekends?

So: if you can sensibly mentally insert the word this, that or some other word which indicates you are talking about a specific weekend, then use weekend. If you can sensibly mentally insert the word every or each or those or some other word which means you are talking about more than one weekend, use weekends.

How was or were your weekend?

The singular “weekend” is more common. I would say “How was your weekend?” (singular) as equivalent to “How were your days away?” (plural).

Is weekend a single word?

It is one word. Any holiday period at the end of the week; either from Friday or Saturday to Monday. If you want to refer to the two- day period covering Saturday and Sunday, you must use “ weekend”( one word).

Does weekend have a hyphen?

We checked nine standard dictionaries in the US and the UK, and all of them now list “weekend” without the hyphen. However, the Oxford English Dictionary still hyphenates the word in its main entry (“week-end”), though the term is hyphen-free in all OED citations from the 1970s onward.

Do you say in the weekend or on the weekend?

“In the weekend” is not used. “On the weekend” may be used to convey something you intend to do or some event that is to take place sometimes during the weekend. Actually the phrase “during the weekend” is better for an event or plan for sometime during the weekend when the specific date is not known.

Is Friday considered to be a weekday or a weekend?

Friday is widely considered to be the last day of the working week worldwide, and for those who work a Monday to Friday job, it’s the beginning of the weekend and therefore the most glorious weekday around.

What’s the difference between “on weekends” and “at weekends”?

Quick answer “At the weekend” is an adverb which is often translated as “en el fin de semana”, and “on weekends” is a phrase which is often translated as “los fines de semana”. Learn more about the difference between “at the weekend” and “on weekends” below.

Do we say at the weekend or on weekends?

Weekend is mostly used in singular form. However it can be used in its plural form ( weekends) when we are referring to a number of different weekends over a period of time. We went to the beach at/on the weekend. ( = only one weekend, the one that just went by)

What is difference between week days and weekend?

As nouns the difference between weekday and weekend is that weekday is any day of the week except sunday and often also saturday [http://wwwyourdictionarycom/weekday american heritage] [http://wwwcollinsdictionarycom/dictionary/english/weekday collins] [http://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/weekday merriam-webster] while weekend is the break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day thus in western countries, saturday and sunday occasionally