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I giorni della settimana (the days of the week) consist of lunedì (Monday), martedì (Tuesday), mercoledì (Wednesday), giovedì (Thursday) and venerdì (Friday).
Where do these names derive from?  lunedì is from la luna (moon), martedì from il pianeta Marte (the planet Mars), mercoledì from Mercurio (Mercury), giovedì from Giove (Jupiter), and venerdìfrom Venere (Venus). The suffix dì means day.

The fine settimana (weekend) is made up of sabato (Saturday) and domenica (Sunday).

In English we use the preposition ‘on‘ to specify a particular day of the week. Italians however use the article ‘il‘ (the). For example:

il martedì andro al cinema - on Tuesday I’m going to the cinema