Days of the week in Vietnamese

The word day in Vietnamese is – ngày. In full literary form the word ‘day’ is added before the name of the weekday, but in spoken language it is omitted. Days of the week, as well as months, in Vietnamese are formed using numerals.

First word in the weekday name is thứ, representing the form of ordinal number in Vietnamese. Then after the word thứ goes cardinal number. But the count starts from the word hai – two for Monday, because Sunday is the first day of the week. Also the word Sunday has its own form, unlike other days of the week – chủ nhật (the Lord’s day, main day).