El lunes tenemos una reunión.

to have

Breakdown of El lunes tenemos una reunión.

• una: a
• nosotros: we
• la reunión: the meeting

Questions & Answers about El lunes tenemos una reunión.

Why is there an article in Spanish: why el lunes and not just “lunes”?

Spanish uses the definite article with days of the week to mean “on.” So el lunes = “on Monday.” You generally don’t say en lunes or just lunes in a full sentence. The article agrees in gender (days are masculine), so it’s el lunes.

What’s the difference between el lunes and los lunes?

• El lunes = on Monday (one specific Monday).
• Los lunes = on Mondays (habitually, every Monday). Note that lunes looks the same in singular and plural; the article tells you which one it is.

Does El lunes mean this coming Monday or the following Monday?

It usually means the next Monday coming up from now (context decides). If you need to be explicit:

• este lunes = this Monday
• el lunes que viene / el próximo lunes = next Monday
• el lunes pasado = last Monday

Why is lunes lowercase here?

Days and months are lowercase in Spanish unless they start a sentence or are part of a title. Here, El is capitalized only because it’s the first word of the sentence.

Can I change the word order to Tenemos una reunión el lunes?