🇪🇸 How to write dates

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In today's Spanish quiz, we'll learn how to write dates (ex. August 15th) 🗓️

Choose the correct translation for:

Mine is on August 15th.

💡Helpful pointers

In Spanish, you do not say or write dates in their ordinal form (2nd, 15th, 21st etc).

The only exception to this rule is for the first day (primero) of each month, as shown below:

• The 1st of January – El primero de enero

• The 1st of November – El primero de noviembre

For any other date, you use cardinal numbers (2,15, 21).

(the only other exception is some legal/formal documents that tend to have dates written in their ordinal form)

The formula for expressing other date sis simple: cardinal number + de + month

The major difference here is that in Spanish, the month always comes after the day, whereas in English, the month can go before or after the day.

For example:

• The supermarket will be open on the 2nd of January – El supermercado estará abierto el dos de enero

• Franco was born on June 15th – Franco nació el quince de junio

• I’ll be arriving on July 4th – Llegaré el cuatro de julio

• The wedding will be on Monday, March 16th – Lunes, dieciséis de marzo será la boda

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