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Asking for and Giving the Date

Example

1. Today is October 5th, 2019.

2. Today is Saturday the 6th of October, 2020.

3. I was born in 1998. (nineteen ninety-eight)

4. What’s the date today? It’s the 19th of May.​

Asking for and Giving the Date

Question Answer
What day is it today? It’s + day of the week.
It’s + month + ordinal number (+ year).
What’s the date today? OR
It's + the + ordinal number + of + month (+ year).

Reminder

Days and Months

Days of the week and months of the year start with a capital letter​ in English:

M​onday, T​uesday, W​ednesday, T​hursday, F​riday, S​aturday, S​unday

J​anuary, F​ebruary, M​arch, A​pril, M​ay, J​une, J​uly, A​ugust, S​eptember, O​ctober,

November, D​ecember

Ordinal Numbers to Say the Date

In English, we use ordinal numbers to talk about dates.

We make ordinal numbers by adding “th” at the end.

Example

Look at these examples:

07/10/2019 Today is the 7th of October, 2019. seventh

10/09/2009 She was born on the 10th of September, 2009. tenth

25/12 Some people celebrate Christmas on December 25th. twenty-fifth

We say dates in two ways:

the ​+ ordinal number + of ​+ month the ​seventh of ​October

month + ordinal number December twenty-fifth

Important

Exceptions

1 first

1 January We do not say “oneth January”​.​ We say “the first of January​​” or

“January first​​”.

2 second

2 February We do not say “twoeth February”​.​ We say “February second​​” or

“the second of February​​”.

3 third

3 March We do not say “threeth March”. ​ We say “​March third​”​ or “​​the third

of March​”​
5 fifth

8 eighth

9 ninth

12 twelfth

“y​” “ie​”

In the numbers 20 (twenty​), 30 (thirty​), 40 (forty​), etc., the letter “y​” becomes “ie​” in

the ordinals:

20th (twentie​th), 30th (thirtie​th), 40th (fortie​th), etc.

Tips and Tricks

Abbreviations

first 1st

second 2nd

third 3rd

other ordinal numbers: sixth 6th

1st first​ 11th eleventh 21st twenty-first

31st thirty-first
2nd second​ 12th twelfth 22nd twenty-second
40th fortie​th
3rd third​ 13th thirteenth 23rd twenty-third
50th fiftie​th
4th fourth 14th fourteenth 24th twenty-fourth
60th sixtie​th
5th fifth​ 15th fifteenth 25th twenty-fifth
70th seventie​th
6th sixth 16th sixteenth 26th twenty-sixth
80th eightie​th
7th seventh 17th seventeenth 27th twenty-seventh
90th ninetie​th
8th eighth​ 18th eighteenth 28th twenty-eighth
100th one hundredth
9th ninth​ 19th nineteenth 29th twenty-ninth
etc.
10th tenth 20th twentie​th 30th thirtie​th

Saying the Year in English

In English, we often split the year into two parts:

19​75​ nineteen ​seventy-five​

From 2000 to 2009 (2001, 2002, etc.), we usually don’t split the year:

2001​ two thousand (and) one​

From 2010 and onwards, we split the year again:

20​11​ twenty ​eleven ​

or

2011 ​ two thousand (and) eleven​​

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