mandag

From Old Danish mandagh, from Old Norse mánadagr, from late Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a calque of Latin dies lunae. Compare Norwegian Bokmål mandag, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur, Faroese mánadagur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanˀda/, [ˈmænˀdæ]
• Rhymes: -a

mandag c (singular definite mandagen, plural indefinite mandage)

1. Monday

(days of the week) ugedag; mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag ^{(Category: da:Days of the week)}

Equivalent to man (“man”) +‎ dag (“day”).

mandag m (plural mandaggen, diminutive mandagje n)

1. (unit of measurement) one day of labour by one person; a man-day

   Synonym: persoonsdag

   Het project zal naar schatting 1000 mandagen aan werk kosten.

   The project is estimated to require 1000 man-days of work.

   Voor dit bouwproject zijn er minstens 50 mandagen nodig om het af te ronden.

   This construction project requires at least 50 man-days to complete.

   Het team werkte met een inzet van 5 mandagen om het probleem op te lossen.

   The team worked with a commitment of 5 man-days to solve the problem.

Not to be confused with maandag (“Monday”).

From Danish mandag, from Old Norse mánadagr, from late Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a calque of Latin dies lunae. Compare Danish mandag, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur, Faroese mánadagur.

mandag m (definite singular mandagen, indefinite plural mandager, definite plural mandagene)

1. Monday

• måndag (Nynorsk)

(days of the week) ukedag; mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag ^{(Category: nb:Days of the week)}

• “mandag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.