La Fecha

The date in Spanish is reversed from the date in English. In Spanish we always begin with the day rather than the month:

Es el tres de marzo.	It is the 3rd of March (March 3rd.)
Es el veintiuno de abril.	It is the 21st of April (April 21st.)

The full date is written out "El _(date)__ de __(month)___ de _(year)________"

For example: May 27, 1969 would be written as "El veintisiete de mayo de mil novecientos sesenta y nueve"

The only date that doesn't use a number is the first of each month. We say el primero .
If I want to refer to April 1, 1999, I say "el primero de abril de mil novecientos noventa y nueve."

Other helpful vocabulary:

Hoy	Today
Ayer	Yesterday
Mañana	Tomorrow (also, Morning)
Anteayer	Day before yesterday
Anoche	last night

El Año

In English we can break the year in half and say "Nineteen Ninety-nine" or "Seventeen seventy-six." Unfortunately in Spanish there is no shortcut to giving the year. We must start from the top:

mil novecientos noventa y nueve [in other words, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine]

When we refer to the current century, it is the same as in English:

dos mil, dos mil uno, dos mil dos.... (2000, 2001, 2002...)

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