No. 116 in German
samstag
"Samstag" means "Saturday" in English.
In a sentence
Ich gehe am Samstag ins Kino.
I am going to the cinema on Saturday.
Here, 'am Samstag' specifies the day on which the activity happens, thus it's used as a temporal phrase to indicate time.
Samstags schlafe ich gerne lange.
On Saturdays, I like to sleep in.
The word 'Samstags' is used in its plural form here to indicate every instance of the day, hence indicating a habitual action.
Der Film läuft nächsten Samstag.
The movie is showing next Saturday.
The phrase 'nächsten Samstag' indicates a specific upcoming Saturday, modifying 'Samstag' with a future time specification.
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