Learn French: Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine.

Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine.

On Mondays, we go to the pool.

Breakdown of Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine.

nous

we / us (object pronoun)

at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)

Questions & Answers about Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine.

Why does the French sentence use Le lundi instead of a direct translation like Sur lundis?

In French, you do not use a word like "on" for days of the week. To talk about a recurring habit, like something you do every Monday, you simply put the definite article le before the day. So le lundi translates to "on Mondays" or "every Monday".

Should lundi have an -s at the end since the English translation is plural?

No, you keep the day singular in French when talking about habits. The phrase le lundi already implies that it happens every week, so you do not need to make lundi plural.

Why is lundi not capitalized here?

Unlike in English, days of the week are not capitalized in French unless they are the very first word of the sentence. Here, Le starts the sentence, so lundi stays lowercase.

What would it mean if I left out Le and just wrote Lundi, nous allons à la piscine?

Dropping Le changes the meaning from a repeating habit to a one-time event. Lundi by itself just means "Monday" or "this coming Monday," whereas Le lundi means it happens every week.

Why do we use à la before ?