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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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When is "next Friday"?

0If it’s Tuesday and someone says “next Friday”, which Friday do they mean—the nearest Friday (three days from now), or the Friday of the next week (nine days from now)?02br
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00As much as my question may seem stupid and the meaning of “next” obvious, the usual translation for “next” to my native language would mean the latter in the context above…0-
  

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0 Next friday means the Friday of next week.02br
00This friday means the Friday of this week.0-
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01cite10Westlake12cite10Next friday means the Friday of next week.12br
10This friday means the Friday of this week.12br
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11b01font00This is my interpretation as well. However, I often find people asking, just for the sake of certainty, with something li
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0I get that as well sometimes. It's because they think that 'next' friday literally means the next Friday, so if it's currently Tues, they think it's the Fri at the end of the week that you mean rather than the Friday of the next week.02br
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00Another thing people sometimes say is "Friday week" - it means the same as next Friday. 0-
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0Hi,02br
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00This is a tricky point. Here's a quick and brief comment.02br
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00To me, on Tuesday 'next Friday' most likely means the coming Friday of the same week.02br
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00However, on Thurday 'next Friday' suggest to me the Friday of the following week, since for tomorrow one would naturally say 'tomorrow'.02br
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0 But then, if that was the case Clive, you would just say "see you on Friday", whereas "see you next Friday" means not this one coming but the one after. 0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00But then, if that was the case Clive, you would just say "see you on Friday" 02font00I might, and I might not. I say it both ways.02br
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01font00whereas "see you next Friday" means not this one coming but the one after. 00Well, this is the point we are debating,
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0 Certainly in the UK the vast majority of people take next friday to mean the Friday of next week. Some regions have variations of the expression, and say things like "Fri week" (which means the same thing) and might question "next fri" if they've never heard it before. But it never, ever, means the coming Friday. 0-
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0 Darn! No wonder I keep turning up on the wrong day. 0-
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In a statement like "not this Friday but next Friday" there is context the provides the necessary understanding to allow the use of the term next Friday. To use next Friday without this context to mean more than 6 days from now would imply that there is an unspoken "this" somewhere to provide the context. How about "I will provide the right answer the Friday after next". Hum I wonder that is ? It
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Hey, you have a good reason for not understanding this English trap due to being clever and bi - lingual, many English only speakers have weird ideas about this phrase and using basic logical explanations with them seems to stress them out further.

In English your example of the "next" Friday would be exactly that, "being the very next Friday."

The explanation

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