Translation help

[leonl]

お元気ですか。夏休みはどうですか。私はとてもリラックスしています。1週間に五日、プールへ行って、およいでいます。それから、ゴルフもよくしています。本を読むことも好きなので、読書もしています。夏休みは本とうにいいですね

This is part of an email our Japanese Professor sent us today. The bolded part is giving me somet trouble. This is what i've come up with, but it doesnt sound quite right to me


One week i went to the pool, I swam for five days?

thanks

[Yudan Taiteki]

お元気ですか。夏休みはどうですか。私はとてもリラックスしています。1週間に五日、プールへ行って、およいでいます。それから、ゴルフもよくしています。本を読むことも好きなので、読書もしています。夏休みは本とうにいいですね

This is part of an email our Japanese Professor sent us today. The bolded part is giving me somet trouble. This is what i've come up with, but it doesnt sound quite right to me


One week i went to the pool, I swam for five days?

およいでいます is not past tense, so it can't be "went" and "swam". Note what the 間 in 1週間 means, and think about what "I swim for five days" might mean in relation to the span of a week.

[leonl]

I thought about some more and came up with this

For five days out of the week i go and swim?


I dont know what is about this sentence , that is making it hard for me. Once I looked up kanji and words I didn't know in the rest of the email I was able to understand it ok

[Yudan Taiteki]

I thought about some more and came up with this

For five days out of the week i go and swim?

You got it.

[leonl]

Thank you for the help

[furrykef]

Does it mean "five days a week", or does it mean "five days out of a particular week"? (Or is it another one of those annoying context-dependent things...?)

[NocturnalOcean]

Does it mean "five days a week", or does it mean "five days out of a particular week"? (Or is it another one of those annoying context-dependent things...?)

1週間に五日 This pattern of using に is a general pattern for expressing general frequency.

一週間に三回
一ヶ月に四日

and so forth

[NileCat]

(Or is it another one of those annoying context-dependent things...?)

Don't worry, furrykef.
It ALWAYS means "five days a week".