friday

«friday» in Mova's school dictionary: a day of the week — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (Friday, Fridays)

meaning for a pupil

1) Friday is a day of the week. It comes after Thursday and before Saturday. tree →

2) For most children it is the last day of the school week. tree →

3) Friday can also be a person's name, such as Man Friday, the helper in Robinson Crusoe. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a day in time problems; counting days from Monday to Friday (5 school days); amounts each day added. In everyday life: Friday spelling tests, Friday afternoon fun, the weekend starts after Friday. Phrases: «on Friday», «on Fridays», «Friday night», «TGIF» («thank goodness it's Friday»).

examples

• On Friday she read 25 pages. tree →
• From Monday to Friday he walks 2 km a day. tree →
• The test is on Friday. tree →
• How many days from Monday to Friday? tree →
• We have pizza on Friday nights. tree →
• Friday comes after Thursday. tree →
• The school disco is this Friday. tree →
• We have a spelling test every Friday. tree →
• "Mother Friday, forgive me! pardon me, the guilty one! tree →

note

Always a capital F. Short form «Fri». Maths: a day name; it can set how many days to count. Trap: Monday to Friday is 5 days.

In the corpora

• Mum pins a rota on the fridge: "Freya this Friday, Sam next Friday.
• "zhōumò" means the weekend; "zhōumò kuàilè" (happy weekend) is a common Friday goodbye.
• Lucas, who tries to learn twenty in one night, may pass on Friday and forget most of them by Monday.
• On Friday Finn told the teacher it was him, said sorry to Rory and scrubbed the wall clean himself.
• She moved the snack to before the bus, put Jake at the front with her, and the Friday fights simply stopped.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «friday» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.