week
part of speech
noun (week, weeks; casual: wk, wks)
meaning for a pupil
1) A week is seven days, from Monday to Sunday or Sunday to Saturday. tree →
2) The week can mean the school or work days, Monday to Friday. tree →
3) (casual) «A week Tuesday» (UK) means a week after next Tuesday; «weekend» is Saturday and Sunday; «midweek» is around Wednesday. tree →
4) (casual) «Weeks» can mean a long time, not counted: «I haven't seen him for weeks». tree →
5) (formal) Exams and notices say «weekly», «per week», «per week, inclusive of weekends», «a period of seven days», «fortnightly» (every two weeks) and «per annum» (per year). tree →
sense in the lessons
seven days: «N a day for a week» is N × 7; school timetables repeat every week; phrases: «a week», «per week», «every week», «next week», «last week», «this week», «weekend», «week by week», «a week off», «a fortnight» (two weeks, UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ); in casual talk «see ya next wk», «for weeks», «what a week»; in rough talk «what a crap week»; in the exam voice «per week», «over a period of seven days», «remunerated weekly»
examples
- How many pages does Anna read in a week? tree →
- Ben swims 3 times a week. tree →
- Two weeks have how many days? tree →
- A week is 7 days. tree →
- We go to the library every week. tree →
- Half-term is a week long. tree →
- My tooth came out last week. tree →
- see ya next wk, bring the 10 bucks tree →
- What a crap week, I lost my bus pass twice. tree →
- Dad's off for a fortnight, that's 14 days. tree →
- A pupil is remunerated 5 dollars weekly. Compute the amount received over a period of four weeks. tree →
- I haven't seen my cousin for weeks. tree →
note
A week is 7 days. Two weeks are 14 days, called a fortnight in the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ. A year has 52 weeks. Trap: «N a day for a week» is N × 7. The weekend is Saturday and Sunday. «weekly» means once every week. «for weeks» in talk means a long time, not a number. Trap: «week» and «weak» (not strong) sound the same.
In the corpora
- Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.
- Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge.
- Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because the early weeks are the most uncertain.
- Parents often make a shortlist of names, and the name must be registered officially within a few weeks of the birth.
- Paternity leave is time off work for a new father; in Britain it is usually two weeks.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «week» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.