miketuan

[frigid badger]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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[pliant peak]

To be fair, you're being asked about the day itself. I've always seen « lundi / le lundi » as equivalent to English's 'on + day' where the focus is on the repeated action and not the day

'What days of the week do you work? Monday and Tuesday.'
'I work on Mondays and (on) Tuesdays.'

« Quels jours de la semaine travaillez-vous ? Lundi et mardi. »
« Je travaille le lundi et le mardi. »

[hidden tapir]

how about we put them in a list (listing)? Will the article still not be used then?
For example: "Days of the week are Monday, Tuesday,...Sunday"
Or when answering the question that I posted, will it be: "They are Monday, Wednesday and Friday."?

[pliant peak]

In a list? No.

[hidden tapir]

Would you personally say the only circumstance where an article is used for "semaine" is when we talk about something that happens weekly?

[pliant peak]

Well « semaine » isn’t a day, it’s a concept covering multiple days, so it’s different

[hidden tapir]

Sorry, I meant "jour" instead. I lost asleep so my brain went crazy

[pliant peak]

The rule of no article thing only applies to the days themselves

« Je travaille lundi (I work on Monday) / Je travaille le lundi (I work every Monday) »

[hidden tapir]

"Une semaine va du lundi au dimanche inclus." I just found

[pliant peak]

but « Je travaille tous les trois jours (I work every three days) »

[pliant peak]

That's because it's every week

It's not as if this week starts on a Monday and next week starts on a Tuesday