No. 232 in Dutch

weekend

The Dutch word "weekend" means "the end of the week" or "Saturday and Sunday" in English.

In a sentence

Ik ga dit weekend naar het strand.
I am going to the beach this weekend.
In this sentence, 'weekend' is used as a noun, representing the time period comprising Saturday and Sunday.
In Nederland kijken veel mensen uit naar het weekend.
In the Netherlands, many people look forward to the weekend.
Here, 'weekend' is used as an abstract concept referring to leisure time at the end of the workweek.
Tijdens het weekend organiseerden we een groot feest.
During the weekend, we organized a big party.
In this example, 'weekend' is a temporal context used to describe when the event took place.

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