HOW TO SAY THE DATE ENGLISH A1 2021
How to say the date in English How to say the date in English? It may seem too basic, but it is necessary to review all the words that we must include in the date to know how to write it in English. That is why we are going to review, first, concepts such as day, month and year in English. Days of the week in English Let's start by reviewing how the days of the week are written in English. The days of the week in English always start with a capital letter: Monday: Lunes Tuesday: Martes Wednesday: Miércoles Thursday: Jueves Friday: Viernes Saturday: Sábado Sunday: Domingo
Months of the year The months in English, like the days of the week in English, are always capitalized: January: Enero July: Julio February: Febrero August: Agosto March: Marzo September: Septiembre April: Abril October: Octubre May: Mayo November: Noviembre June: Junio December: Diciembre The abbreviations of the months in English are as follows (except for May and June): Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jul, Aug, Sept, Nov, Dec.
Numbers in English When expressing the date in English, you must do so with the ordinal number, unlike what happens in Spanish. Next will be the ordinal numbers in English with their abbreviation: 1st (first): Primero 13th (thirteenth): Decimotercero 2nd (second): Segundo 14th (fourteenth): Decimocuarto 3rd (third): Tercero 15th (fifteenth): Decimoquinto 4th (fourth): Cuarto 16th (sixteenth): Decimosexto 5th (fifth): Quinto 17th (seventeenth): Decimoséptimo 6th (sixth): Sexto 18th (eighteenth): Decimoctavo 7th (seventh): Séptimo 19th (nineteenth): Decimonoveno 8th (eight): Octavo 20th (twentieth): Vigésimo 9th (ninth): Noveno 21st (twenty-first): Vigésimo primero 10th (tenth): Décimo 30th (thirtieth): Trigésimo 11th (eleventh): Undécimo 31th (thirty-first): Trigésimo primero 12th (twelfth): Duodécimo It is mandatory to say that in dates, the day always goes in ordinal numbers. Ejemplo: The concert is on August 3rd / on 3rd August.
The years in English Before the year 2000, the years must be divided into tens. Ejemplo: 1900 – nineteen hundred; 1901 – nineteen hundred (and/oh) one; 1985 – nineteen eighty-five. The years between 2000 and 2009 should not be divided. Ejemplo: 2000 – two thousand; 2001 – two thousand and one. A partir del año 2010 se dividen en 20 y 10. Ejemplo: 2010 – twenty ten; 2016 – twenty sixteen. As we all know, there are two different types of English, British and American, in which it has different structures when it comes to saying or expressing the date . Cómo se escriben las fechas en inglés británico? To write dates in British English, we must first write the day, then the month, and finally the year (in the same way we do in Spanish). For example, if we want to write the date June 23, 1945, we will do it as follows: 23rd June 1945 If we want to pronounce this date, you would do it like this: The twenty third of June nineteen forty-five.
On the other hand, we can also write the same date in the following ways: 06/23/1945 23–6–1945 23.06.45 How are dates written in American English? To write the dates in American English, we will follow the month, day and year format. For example, if we want to write October 30, 2015 we would do it as follows: October 30th, 2015. If we want to pronounce this date we would do it like this: October (the) thirtieth twenty fifteen. We can also write the same date in the following ways: 10/30/2015 10.30.2015 10-30-2015 FUN FACT: A curiosity that you will find if you take a look at the calendars or the American agendas is that they consider that the first day of the week is Sunday. Although, in reality, their work and school weeks always start on Monday, just like ours do.