Norwegian Vocabulary
mandag
Norwegian word for Monday
Definition
mandag translates to Monday in English.
Example sentence
Jeg begynner på jobb på mandag.
Uses mandag in a typical days context.
How to use this word
mandag means "Monday" in Norwegian. It's a days word commonly used in everyday Norwegian. You'll see mandag in conversations about days, in textbooks, and in short phrases you'll hear in Norway. As a A1-level word in the CEFR scale, it's one of the first you should learn — master mandag early and dozens of related sentences become instantly easier to follow.
Where does this word come from?
mandag traces back to Old Norse mánadagr (MAH-nah-dah-gr).
Mandag comes from Old Norse mánadagr — literally 'the moon's day,' from Máni, the personified moon in Norse cosmology. English Monday shares the same Germanic root, both tracing back to the Latin calendar's dies Lunae filtered through older Germanic astronomy.
Monday — also "moon's day"
Etymology from Norse tradition