Need to schedule an appointment, plan a meeting or organize a party? If so, you need to know how to express the date in Spanish!
Let’s start with the days of the week. In Spanish, semana means week. We have a few different rules about the week in Spanish than in English.
- Days of the week are only written with capital letters if they are the first word in a sentence.
- Spanish calendars begin on Mondays, not Sundays.
lunes
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martes
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miércoles
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jueves
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viernes
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sábado
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domingo
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Fun fact! In Spanish, the numeric date order is day / month / year (as opposed to the English version which is month / day / year). April 29th, 2021 for example, would be written as: 29/4/2021.
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Now let’s talk about
the months in Spanish. The months in Spanish are also written without being capitalized (unless found at the beginning of the sentence) just like the days of the week! They are:
enero
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo
junio
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre
Many of the months in Spanish are cognates! Remember these are words in Spanish that look like a word in English and have the same meaning.
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Now that we have these pieces, let’s talk about how to express the full date in Spanish. Our word order will always be:
DAY + THE + NUMBER + “DE” + MONTH + “DE” + YEAR
Let’s look at a few examples:
December 25, 2021 = sábado el 25 de diciembre
July 4th 2021 = domingo el 4 de julio