Breakdown of El lunes voy al centro con mi amigo.
con
with / just by (+ -ing)
el amigo
the friend
mi
my
ir
to go
al
to the (m)
el centro
the center
el lunes
the Monday
Questions & Answers about El lunes voy al centro con mi amigo.
Why does it say El lunes instead of using a Spanish word for "on"?
In Spanish, you do not use prepositions like en or sobre to say "on a certain day". Instead, you just use the definite article el (the) before the day of the week. So, el lunes literally means "the Monday", but it is the correct way to say "on Monday".
Lunes ends in an "s". Is it plural? How would I say "on Mondays"?
Lunes is singular here. The days of the week from Monday to Friday all naturally end in an "s" in Spanish (lunes, martes, etc.). We know this specific sentence means a single Monday because it uses the singular article el. If you wanted to say "on Mondays" (every Monday), you would just change the article to plural and say los lunes.
What does al mean in this sentence?
al is a mandatory combination of the word a (to) and the masculine article el (the). Because centro is a masculine noun, we need el. But in Spanish, whenever a is followed directly by el, they must squish together into al. You will never see them written as two separate words.
Where is the word for "I" in the Spanish sentence?
The Spanish word for "I" is yo, but native speakers usually drop it. The verb voy is the "I" form of the verb ir (to go). Because voy can only ever mean "I go", the pronoun yo is not needed to understand who is going downtown.
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