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Illustration of the A1 German word “der Donnerstag”, which translates to “Thursday”. Thor the Norse thunder god strikes his hammer on a storm cloud; the thunderclap blows Oma Trude's washing off her line below, and she shakes her fist at the sky, eyebrows down in fury.

Donnerstag is part of German nouns A1–B1 and Goethe A1 vocabulary.

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derDonnerstag, -e

Thursday

/ˈdɔnɐsˌtaːk/

Examples — Donnerstag in a sentence

Donnerstag ist unser Sporttag.

Thursday is our sports day.

Wir haben am Donnerstag eine Besprechung.

We have a meeting on Thursday.

How to remember it

DONNERSTAG sounds like 'DONNER-stahg'. Think 'THUNDER-day' ('Donner' is thunder) – Thursday is the thunder day!

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