Days of the week in Hindi and English

The days of the week in Hindi and English are one of the first "time words" a child learns, and they make sense only when they are tied to real life: Monday is school, Sunday is Nani's call, Friday is the music class. This page gives your child the seven days as numbered cards, spoken in both languages with clear audio, and gives you a plan to turn them into a daily habit.

What are the 7 days of the week?

There are seven days in a week. In the correct order, starting from Sunday as most Indian and US calendars do, they are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In Hindi, the 7 दिनों के नाम are रविवार, सोमवार, मंगलवार, बुधवार, गुरुवार, शुक्रवार, शनिवार. Many school and European calendars start the week on Monday instead, so your child may see both. Tell them the order of the days never changes, only the day we call "first".

The word list above works as a days of the week chart with the Hindi, the English and the pronunciation side by side. For quick reference, here is how the Hindi names, the Sanskrit names and the Urdu names line up.

A lovely fact for older children: the Hindi and the English days follow the same sky pattern. Sunday and रविवार both mean "Sun's day", Monday and सोमवार both mean "Moon's day", and Saturday and शनिवार both come from Saturn. The English names for Tuesday to Friday come from old Norse and Germanic gods (Tiw, Woden, Thor and Frigg), while the Hindi names keep the planets. गुरुवार is also called बृहस्पतिवार.

How to use the days of the week game

Each day appears as a big card with its number, so Sunday is 1 and Saturday is 7. This links the days to counting, which helps children see that the week has an order.

• Listen: tap a card to hear, for example, "Monday, सोमवार". Tap them from 1 to 7 to hear the whole week in order, like a song.
• Find it: Golu asks "Where is Thursday?" and your child picks from 2 to 4 cards. There is no "wrong": a mistaken tap says the name of that day, then the correct card glows, then Golu points to it.

Every round ends with a marble in the Goli Jar; count them together by tapping the jar. The अ+A button switches between Hindi first, English first, Hindi only or English only. Settings, behind a grown-up check, let you pick your child's age and turn on calm sound, calm motion, captions or fewer choices.

What to expect at each age

Children understand "time" slowly. A 3-year-old may say "yesterday" for anything in the past, and that is normal. By class 1, most children can answer days of the week questions with answers such as "Which day comes before Friday?"

How to teach days of the week to kids at home

Five minutes a day, tied to routine, beats any long lesson. Try these ideas.

1. Morning question: at breakfast ask "आज कौन सा दिन है? What day is it today?" Answer together, in both languages.
2. A day for each thing: link each day to something your family does. "Tuesday is the vegetable market day. Sunday is the park day." Anchors like these help more than memorising.
3. Clothes-peg chart: write the seven days on a strip of card and move a clothes peg each morning. This is an easy days of the week chart idea for a classroom too.
4. Days of the week song: sing the names to a tune your child already knows, such as "Twinkle Twinkle" or a clapping rhythm. Clap once for each day.
5. Before and after: ask "What day comes after Monday?" It builds the same skill as before and after numbers.

Keep a "week wheel" by the door: a paper circle cut into seven slices, one day per slice, with a paper arrow in the centre. Your child turns the arrow each morning. It is a simple days of the week project for kids that stays useful all year.

Ideas for nursery, kindergarten and preschool classrooms

Teachers looking for days of the week for nursery, preschool or kindergarten can use this page on a classroom screen for five minutes during circle time. Tap the seven cards in correct order while the class repeats each name, then play Find it with children taking turns to come up and tap.

• Board ideas: a days of the week board with seven coloured pockets, one per day, makes a simple classroom decoration. Add today's weather card to the pocket each morning.
• Chart for preschool: draw one picture per day that matches your class timetable (a ball for games day, a paintbrush for art day). Pictures help children who cannot read yet.
• Rhymes and chants: short days of the week rhymes, clapped or stamped, keep the class moving. Make up a line per day, for example "Monday, Monday, back to school".
• Hindi class: write सप्ताह के दिनों के नाम on the board and ask children to say the दिनों के नाम हिंदी में and then in English. Older children can compare the दिनों के नाम संस्कृत में from the table above.

Once children know the week, link the days of the week and months of the year on one calendar: circle today's date, say the day and the month together, and count how many Sundays the month has.

Writing and spelling the days (days of the week kaise likhate hain)

How do you write the days of the week? In English, each day starts with a capital letter and ends in "day": Sun-day, Mon-day, Tues-day, Wednes-day, Thurs-day, Fri-day, Satur-day. Splitting the word helps children learn days of the week spelling: they only need to learn the first part. Wednesday is the tricky one, because the first "d" is silent; say it slowly as "Wed-nes-day" for spelling practice.

In Hindi, every day name ends in वार, so children only need to learn the first part: रवि, सोम, मंगल, बुध, गुरु, शुक्र, शनि. For a days of the week worksheet, print this page from your browser, cover one column of the word list with paper and ask your child to fill it in. We do not offer a PDF file, but the page prints cleanly.

Days of the week in Indian life

In many Indian homes the days carry customs: some families fast on Monday or Tuesday, many markets have a weekly haat on a fixed day, and Sunday is the common holiday. These make great memory hooks. Ask your child, "Which day does Dadi go to the temple?" or "Which day is the haat?" Children remember a day far better when it has a story. If your family celebrates Friday prayers or a Saturday Sabbath, use those too.

A global note: in Spanish, French and German the names also come from the Sun, the Moon and the planets, so if your child learns a third language later, the pattern will feel familiar.

Keeping it calm and inclusive

Praise effort, not speed: "You said the whole week!" If your child mixes up Tuesday and Thursday, you are in good company; many adults did too. Switch to Listen mode, lower the number of choices in Settings, or take a break and try tomorrow. For a child with speech delay, pointing to the right card is a real success. Autistic children often like the fixed, predictable order of the week, and a visual week chart at home can make routines feel safer. In bilingual homes, teach the days in the home language first, then add the second with the अ+A button. Play together in short sessions; for children under 2, singing with a grown-up is better than any screen. Talk to your paediatrician if you are worried about your child's language.

Next, try months of the year in Hindi and English, which pairs naturally with the days, then seasons for kids, counting 1 to 10 or Hindi ginti.

How to use this page at home

Say it, then find it

Play for a few minutes, then look for the same thing away from the screen: days of the week on the shelf, in the kitchen, on the way to school. A child learns a word properly when they meet it twice, once on the screen and once in their hand.

Ten minutes is enough

Short and happy beats long and tired. Stop while your child still wants more, and come back tomorrow: the same page on five short days teaches far more than one long sitting. Nothing here is scored, so there is no reason to push.

Use both languages

Tap the language button at the top to hear the words in your home language first and the second language after. Hearing the same picture named in two languages is one of the few things research agrees builds attention as well as vocabulary.