Polish days of the week explained. Polish language, just like other Slavic languages has its own names for days of the week. I'll try here to explain what does each name of day mean in Polish. The week starts with Monday but to preserve the correct order and proper understanding we'll start from Sunday. In Polish Sunday - ''niedziela'' - is the day when we don't work and the name of this day literally means ''don't work''. The next day is Monday which is ''poniedziałek'' which literally means ''after (you) don't work''. That is why we began from Sunday. Now ''wtorek'' (Tuesday) comes from word ''wtóry'' which is an archaic ordinal number - second. While Wednesday is in the middle of working week so we say a word close to ''middle'' - ''środa''. Czwartek (Thursday) is another ordinal number originated name ''cztery''. As you may have figured out it means ''fourth''. The next is ''piątek'' which is yet another number - ''pięć''. And the last one is ''sobota'' that comes from Jewish holiday Sabbath. Those are days of the week in Poland. In other Slavic countries there are minor differences especially on Sunday.