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domingo

nounBeginnerHigh frequency

What does “domingo” mean in English?

  1. Sunday

Example sentences

  • El domingo es un día de descanso.

    Sunday is a day of rest.

  • Los domingos comemos paella.

    On Sundays we eat paella.

  • Te veo el domingo.

    See you on Sunday.

How to use it

Domingo is 'Sunday'. Pluralises normally to domingos. Masculine, lowercase. The week in Spain and most of Latin America starts on Monday — domingo closes the week.

Common mistake

Spanish week order starts with lunes (Monday), not domingo (Sunday). Domingo is the last day, not the first.

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Reference

This entry’s teaching guidance follows A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin & Moreira Rodríguez, Routledge), 32.