Log inSign up

Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine.

Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine.
On Mondays, we go to the pool.
From Lesson 39:Days of the week (lundi, mardi)·French

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 piscine?
The verb aller (to go) is followed by the preposition à (to). Because the word for pool, piscine, is feminine, it uses the article la. They stay separate as à la. If the destination were a masculine place, they would combine into au.

Learn Le lundi, nous allons à la piscine and more in French

All course content and exercises are completely free — no paywalls, no trial periods, no signup needed.

  • ✓ Practice with interactive exercises
  • ✓ Track your progress with spaced repetition
  • ✓Learn at your own pace — completely free
Start learning French →