The date in english

The date in English

date format

There are two date formats in English. One is used in the UK (and in the UK-influenced countries) and the other in the US.

Date format in the United Kingdom

The British date format is similar to German in the order of the day, month and year. However, the numbers are separated by a slash or hyphen.

Long version Short version
August 18, 2010 18/08/2010
18/08/2010

The British date format is also used in the following countries: Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.

Date format in the United States (American English)

The most remarkable thing about the US format is that the month before the day is listed.

Long version Short version
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

or
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

8/18/2010 (Attention: month / day / year)
18/8/2010 (day / month / year)

Date in spoken English

It should be noted that the individual days in the month are ordinal numbers. Let’s look at a few examples.

1 January 2000 reads the first of January two thousand .

January 1st 2000 reads January (the) first two thousand .

How to read the English year numbers?

In English, the year numbers can be read in two different ways:

  • Pronunciation of the year as a number, that is, the year 2009 is read two thousand and nine.
  • The year 1210 can be read by dividing the year into two parts. This second variant is used more frequently for the period between 1020-1999. You will probably come back to this variant after 2020.

Examples of different years in English:

years years in spoken English
10 BC
(10 BC)
ten before Christ
8th eight
711 seven hundred eleven
seven eleven
1001 one thousand and one
1020 ten twenty
1492 fourteen ninety-two
1800 eighteen hundred
eighteen oh-oh
1808 eighteen oh-eight
1986 nineteen eighty six
2000 two thousand
2004 two thousand and four
2010 two thousand and ten
2020 twenty twenty

The weekdays

  • The days of the week are capitalized.
  • In the United States, the first day of the week is Sunday and not Monday, as in Europe.
weekdays weekdays
Monday Monday
Tuesday Tuesday
Wednesday Wednesday
Thursday Thursday
Friday Friday
Saturday Saturday
Sunday Sunday

The months

The months as well as the days of the week are capitalized.

month month
january January
february February
march March
April April
may May
june June
july July
August August
September September
october October
November November
december December

The seasons

The following also applies to the seasons: capital letters at the beginning of the word.

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