shtunës

Shtunës is the Albanian genitive/definite form of shtunë, the word used for Saturday. In Albanian, days of the week are typically used with possessive or definite constructions, so shtunës appears in phrases that specify the day as a definite entity, such as dita e shtunës (the Saturday) or natën e shtunës (the Saturday night). The base noun shtunë denotes the sixth day of the week in the Western calendar.

Usage and grammar: Shtunës is found in contexts that mark the day as a definite thing or in combination with other nouns. Common examples include: dita e shtunës, meaning “the day of Saturday” or simply “Saturday” in a calendar sense; natën e shtunës, meaning “Saturday night.” In everyday speech, the day can also be referred to simply as shtunë, depending on the syntactic construction. Albanian uses slender morphological changes to indicate definiteness and case, so shtunës occurs most often when another noun is linked to the day or when the day is definite in a sentence.

Calendar and culture: In Albanian-speaking regions, Saturday is observed as part of the weekend alongside Sunday. The day is used in scheduling, travel, and cultural references, and appears in education, media, and daily life with the same basic meaning as in other languages: the period between Friday and Sunday, and specifically the portion called Saturday.

See also: Days of the week, Albanian language, Albanian grammar.