Learn Spanish (Spain): Los jueves comemos tarde.

Los jueves comemos tarde.

On Thursdays we eat late.

Breakdown of Los jueves comemos tarde.

comer

to eat; to have lunch

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Questions & Answers about Los jueves comemos tarde.

Why does the sentence use los instead of a word for "on"?

In Spanish, you don't use a preposition like "on" for days of the week. Instead, you use the masculine article el for a single day, or los for recurring days. So, los jueves simply translates to "on Thursdays" or "every Thursday".

Why didn't jueves change spelling to become plural?

Days of the week that already end in an 's' (Monday through Friday, like lunes, martes, and jueves) don't change their spelling when they become plural. You just change the article from el to los to show that you mean multiple Thursdays.

Where is the word for "we" in this sentence?

In Spanish, the ending of the verb tells you who is doing the action, so subject pronouns like nosotros (we) are often left out. The -emos ending in comemos already means "we eat". You could say nosotros comemos, but dropping the pronoun is much more common and natural.

I learned that tarde means "afternoon". Why does it mean "late" here?

Tarde can be a noun meaning "afternoon" (as in la tarde), but it is also an adverb meaning "late". You can tell the difference from the context and the missing article. Without la in front of it, comemos tarde means "we eat late".