По выходным мы играем в футбол на стадионе.

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Breakdown of По выходным мы играем в футбол на стадионе.

• мы: we
• по: on
• выходные: the weekend

Questions & Answers about По выходным мы играем в футбол на стадионе.

Why does по выходным mean on weekends, and what case is выходным?

По выходным is a very common Russian way to say on weekends / at weekends in the sense of a repeated habit.

• по here means something like on / during / every
• выходным is the dative plural form of выходные (the weekend days)

So literally, it is close to on weekend-days or during weekends.

This pattern is common in Russian for repeated times:

• по утрам = in the mornings
• по вечерам = in the evenings
• по понедельникам = on Mondays
• по выходным = on weekends

Why is выходным plural?

Because weekends are understood as a recurring set of days, not a single moment.

The base word here is выходные:

• singular adjective: выходной = day off / free day
• plural: выходные = the weekend / days off

In the phrase по выходным, Russian uses the plural because it refers to weekends in general, as a repeated time frame.

Why is играем in the present tense if the sentence talks about a habit?