2.7: Gramática- La fecha / ¿Cuándo?
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Objetivos
The verb ser is used to give dates:
Carmen: ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy? (What is today’s date?)
Ramón: Hoy es el 20 de mayo. (Today is the 20th of May.)
Carmen: ¿Qué día es hoy? (What day is today?)
Ramón: Hoy es miércoles, 20 de mayo. (Today is Wednesday, the 20th of May.)
Carmen: ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? (When is your birthday?)
Ramón: Es el 16 de diciembre. (It’s the 16th of December.)
To expand dates to include years, use the preposition de (of):
You may also spell out numbers when writing dates:
On the first day of the month use the ordinal number “el primero” (first) and not “el uno”. Only the first day of the month can be expressed with an ordinal number:
Remember that masculine forms of the numbers are always used with dates, and months are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence:
Also remember, to say “in a certain month” use the preposition en (in):
However, to say “on a certain day” / “on certain days” use the definite article el / los:
The interrogative (question word) “cuándo” means “when.”
Unlike some interrogatives, cuándo does not change for gender and number. However, you do need to pay attention to the difference between the question word “cuándo”—with an accent mark—and the relative pronoun “cuando” (no accent mark).