Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

If you announce that the class scheduled for last weekend of the month will be held at Buster's Bar, you cannot say that it will be the past weekend. Time zone: It is used to talk about something that happened (or will happen) between Friday evening and Sunday evening. The guns and the cowards, these evil bastards, behind those guns, that caused the senseless loss of life over the past weekend."



From Friday evening to Monday morning, 104 people were shot in Chicago. Ones again, I said to myself: Yes, I can!On my way back another opportunity showed up.

What's different between "during the weekend" and "over the weekend"?Somehow for me "over the weekend" sounds like I’m doing something on both Saturday and Sunday.




And . The guy was not a native speaker but his English was of a high level – he’s a well educated Anglophone.







Notice how knowing the many meanings and uses of "over" doesn't particularly help to understand the meaning of "over the weekend".

As @JeffSahol points out, in other contexts (e.g., I'll fix that over the weekend) it just means that by the time the weekend is over …

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Last edited: Nov 17, 2010. (My application for post of poet laureate got lost in the post...apparently...)But Prinz you mix American and British English without even realising it! For the weekend could mean most of the weekend and possibly the entire weekend, and over the weekend explicitly means the whole weekend — in this context.



I hear "this past Monday" or "this past weekend" quite frequently in the US.