2.5.0: Vocabulario
Los días de la semana
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To ask for the date in Spanish, you can use ¿Qué día es hoy? (meaning What day is today ?). To answer this question, you can say Hoy es ____________ .
Modelo:
Estudiante 1: ¿Qué día es hoy?
Estudiante 2: Hoy es martes.
- The days of the week are NOT capitalized in Spanish.
- The masculine form of the definite article ( el lunes, el martes, etc. ) are used to refer to specific days.
To talk about habitual or reoccurring actions:
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Use the plural form of the definite article to refer to habitual actions (ie - actions that take place every week. (
los lunes
- every Monday,
los martes
- every Tuesday, etc.)
- Notice that there is not a plural form for most days of the week. ( el lunes, los lunes )
- Exceptions: Saturday ( el sábado, los sábados ) and Sunday ( el domingo, los domingos ).
|
el lunes |
Monday |
|---|---|
|
el martes |
Tuesday |
|
el miércoles |
Wednesday |
|
el jueves |
Thursday |
|
el viernes |
Friday |
|
el sábado |
Saturday |
|
el domingo |
Sunday |
La fecha
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To ask for the date in Spanish, you can use ¿Cuál es la fecha? (meaning What is the date? ). To answer this question, you can say Hoy es { un número} de { un m es} .
Modelo:
Hoy es el cinco de mayo. (Today is May 5th.)
Hoy es el catorce de febrero. (Today is February 14th.)
- The months of the year are NOT capitalized in Spanish. ( e nero, f ebrero, etc.)
-
The first of the month is ¨
el primero
¨.
- Modelo: Hoy es el primero de abril. (Today is April 1st.)
| enero | January |
|---|---|
| febrero | February |
| marzo | March |
| abril | April |
| mayo | May |
| junio | June |
| julio | July |
| agosto | August |
| septiembre | September |
| octubre | October |
| noviembre | November |
| diciembre | December |
To talk about your birthday:
Now that you can give dates, you can tell your birthday to others!
There are several ways to ask when someone´s birthday is:
- ¿Cuál es la fecha de tu cumpleaños?
- ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?
To respond, simply use the formula we learned above: Mi cumpleaños es { un número} de { un m es} .
A question that can naturally arise after talking about birthdays is ¨How old are you?¨.
In Spanish, you use the verb TENER (to have) to talk about age. We will learn about the verb TENER more formally in Unit 4. For right now, use the following phrases to talk about someone´s age:
- ¿Cuántos años tienes tú? ( How old are you? )
- Yo tengo { un número} años. ( I am # years old. )
- Él / Ella tiene { un número} años. ( He/she is # years old. )
Use this chat mat as you converse with others: