A problem with expression.
Today I have a day off (I don't need to work). It is not weekend, because today is not Sunday or Saturday. Which word or expression should I use for this day? Can I call it "leisure time"?
I have 2 work days and then 2 days off. That's my work schedule. How should I call these days? In my language there are other expressions. Days from Monday to Friday we call "budni", and Saturday and Sunday we call "vyhodniye" (weekends). If you have another work schedule (you don't work from Monday to Friday), you will call work days as "work days" (not "budni") and your days off as "vyhodniye"="weekends" (we don't have a special expression). If you relax on Monday and Tuesday, you will call these days "vyhodniye" (days off in English). If you work on Saturday you won't call this day as "budni", only "work day". What about English?
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Hi Anastasiya
Hereby the correction of your notebook entry and the answers on your questions.
Regards
Karen
A problem with some English expressions.
Today I have a day off (I don't need to work). It is not weekend, because today is not Sunday or Saturday. Which word or expression should I use for this day? Can I call it "leisure time"? I would call it a day off.I have 2 work days and then 2 days off (weekends --> depends if it's Saturday/Sunday in English). That's my work schedule. How should I call these days? In my language there are other expressions. Days from Monday to Friday we call "budni" In English, we call them weekdays, and Saturday and Sunday we call "vyhodniye" (weekends). If you have another work schedule (you don't work from Monday to Friday), you will call work days as "work days" (not "budni") and your days off as "vyhodniye"="weekends" (we don't have a special expression). If you relax on Monday and Tuesday, you will call these days "vyhodniye" (days off in English). If you work on Saturday you won't call this day "budni", only "work day". What about English?
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Elizabeth, thank you! (Я пыталась выразиться корректно насчет "будней", но пока что для меня это слишком сложно)
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It's better to say a day off. If you say an off day people might think that you had a bad day or you didn't accomplish what you wanted. Also, there is a word "weekdays" (any day of the week except for Saturday and Sunday). So the Russian word "budni" is translated as "weekdays". And even though in Russian there is only one word "vyhodnye", in English there are two. "The weekend" and "days off"(the weekend is always Saturday and Sunday and a day off is any day when you don't work)
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"I have two work days and then two days off."
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Wait a second... Are these both expressions correct? ("off days" and "day off")?
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