bitful

Today's phrase is

Finalmente è venerdì
At last it's Friday
Literally: At last is Friday

It's been a short week (I worked on Monday, went out on Monday and Tuesday night, had a day off work on Wednesday and was back to work yesterday and today) but I'm very glad the weekend is here again anyway.

I have absolutely nothing planned for the weekend, so I will probably hit the gym for my favourite workouts. I love exercising on Saturday and Sunday mornings, there are not many people around and I have plenty of time to go through all I want to do without rushing. Quite a change from the usual hit-and-run ones before work or occasionally during my lunch break.

So yes, Finalmente è venerdì, which means the weekend is only a few working hours away.

Cosa fai questo weekend?
What are you doing this weekend?
Literally: What do this weekend?

If you want to find out more

• 'Finalmente' means 'at last'. 'Finally' is not translated with 'finalmente', but with 'infine' or 'alla fine' which mean 'in (the) end', 'at the end'. Nothing to worry about, many people get these wrong.
• The names of days and months are not spelled with an upper case initial letter in Italian.
• An accent is used in Italian to indicate that the last syllable needs to be stressed (venerdì) or to distinguish two otherwise identical words: 'è' (with an accent) means '(he, she, it) is', whereas 'e' (without an accent) means 'and'.

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