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Numbers, dates and time
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Numbers, days and times come up in listening and reading at every level. This lesson recaps them and shows the patterns that catch people out.
Numbers
Days, months and dates
el sábado = on Saturday. los sábados = on Saturdays (every week).
Dates: el + number + de + month: el catorce de julio. The 1st: el primero de mayo (or el uno de mayo).
Mi cumpleaños es el tres de marzo. = My birthday is on 3 March.
Telling the time
Es la una. = It is one o'clock (singular). Son las dos. = It is two o'clock (plural for every other hour).
y cuarto (quarter past), y media (half past), menos cuarto (quarter to), menos diez (ten to).
Son las ocho y media. = It is half past eight. Son las nueve menos cuarto. = It is quarter to nine.
¿A qué hora? = At what time? a las siete = at seven o'clock. el mediodía = midday.
de la mañana (in the morning), de la tarde (in the afternoon), de la noche (at night).
Say: On Saturdays I go to the cinema at half past seven.
- On Saturdays (every week): los sábados.
- I go to the cinema: voy al cine (a + el = al).
- At half past seven: a las siete y media.
Answer: Los sábados voy al cine a las siete y media.
16 to 29 are one word (dieciséis, veintiuno); from 31 use y (treinta y uno). Cien = 100, ciento uno = 101. No capitals for days and months; los sábados = on Saturdays. Dates: el + number + de + month. Es la una, son las dos; y cuarto, y media, menos cuarto.
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