Woche

Meaning

1. (feminine) week (period of seven days counting from Monday to Sunday, or from Sunday to Saturday)
2. (feminine) week (any period of seven consecutive days)
3. (feminine) week; weekdays (those days of a given week on which most people work)

Concepts

week

one week

septet

weekly

weekly wage

wk.

wk

week

hebdomad

week

sennight

Synonyms

Woche lang

sieben Tage

Wochen

Kalenderwoche

Arbeitswoche

Hyphenated as

Wo‧che

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɔxə/

Etymology

From Middle High German woche, from Old High German wohha, alteration of older wehha, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Compare English week, Yiddish וואָך (vokh), Dutch week, West Frisian wike, Danish uge, Swedish vecka.

Sentences

Ostern ist immer eine Woche nach dem ersten Vollmond im Frühling .

Easter is always a week after the first full moon in spring.

Unsere Hündin hat letzte Woche Welpen geworfen .

Our bitch threw puppies last week.

In der letzten vollen Woche im Juli findet alljährlich das Sportfest statt .

The sports festival takes place every year in the last full week of July.