Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Sunday November 2, 2008

semanal, adjective:
weekly, per week

You’ll know the word for a week, una semana. Its related adjective is semanal, weekly, per week.

Hay un mercado semanal.
There’s a weekly market.

Como media, los uruguayos trabajan 38 horas semanales.
On average, Uruguayans work 38 hours per week.

Semanalmente comes from semanal. You can use it to describe things which happen weekly.

los cerca de 20.000 ejemplares que se venden semanalmente en Méjico
the roughly 20,000 copies sold every week in Mexico


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