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

Dialects

Zürich

wuche

Appenzell Innerrhoden

wuche

Basel-Landschaft

wuche

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Hyphenated as

Wo‧che

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɔxə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: woche

Inherited from Old High German: wohha

Cognate with English: week

Cognate with Yiddish: וואָך

Cognate with Dutch: week

Cognate with Western Frisian: wike

Cognate with Danish: uge

Cognate with Swedish: vecka

In summary

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

Ohne den Montag wäre fast jede Woche eine bessere .

Without Monday, almost every week would be a better one.

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.