thursday

«thursday» in Mova's school dictionary: the day of the week after Wednesday and before Friday — 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 (Thursday, Thursdays)

meaning for a pupil

1) Thursday is the day of the week after Wednesday and before Friday. A week is 7 days and Thursday is one of them. tree →

2) «On Thursdays» means every Thursday. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a day of the week; amounts on different days are combined or compared; counting days forward and back. Everyday: school timetables, «See you on Thursday». History: Thursday is named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

examples

• On Thursday she read 15 pages. tree →
• He sold 8 cakes on Thursday and 12 on Friday. tree →
• The shop is closed on Thursdays. tree →
• How many more did he sell on Thursday than on Wednesday? tree →
• We have swimming every Thursday. tree →
• If today is Monday, Thursday is in 3 days. tree →
• Thursday is named after Thor, the god of thunder. tree →
• Next Thursday evening the White Bear came to fetch her. tree →

note

Always written with a capital T: Thursday; short form Thu or Thurs. A day of the story; it labels one amount. Combining days means add; «more than» between days means subtract. Trap: count days carefully: from Monday to Thursday is 3 days later.

In the corpora

• The girl says: «This is a Thursday.»
• What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so the answer is Saturday, xīngqīliù.
• Josh in Leeds was meant to take the bins out on Thursday night, but it was cold and he stayed on the sofa.
• Ruby teaches her grandma Minecraft over a video call every Thursday.
• Last time it came back on Thursday, not Monday, with a sticky controller.

Trees and pragmatics

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