How To Say Dates In German

The Date in German

In this commodity nosotros tell you how to form and say the date in High german

i Date format
2 Reading the date
- 2.one Reading the year
3 Asking what the date is
four Units of time (Zeiteinheiten)
v Seasons of the year (die Jahreszeiten)
half dozen Months (Monate)
7 Days of the week (Wochentage)
8 Parts of the day
9 Before and After Christ (Death)

Date in German

Date format

In German language, dates are written with the formats:

Long format:

der 01.Februar 2009
the 1st of February, 2009

Short format:

der 01.02.2009
01 (day)/02 (month)/2009

Differences between English and German date formats:

The separating symbol between the calendar month, year and day in English is the slash "/" and in German language it is the period "."
The months in German are written with a capital letter letter of the alphabet (Februar) like in English

Reading the date

In German the days and months are ordinal numbers simply the years are fundamental.

Y'all have to go on in mind that ordinal numbers are declined similar adjectives:

case ane:

der 01.02.2009

information technology is read as:

der erste zweite zweitausendneun (in the nominative)

case 2:

am 01.02.2009

it is read as:

am ersten zweiten zweitausend neun (in the dative)

Reading the twelvemonth

The mode to read the year is different if the twelvemonth is before 2000 or afterwards:

If it is afterward the yr 2000, it is read as a normal number:
2004 is read as zweitausendvier

If the twelvemonth is earlier 2000, it is read in an interesting way. We tin see this better with an example:
The yr 1995 is read as neunzehnhundertfünfundneunzig

translated literally, it would exist 19 hundred 5 and 90
The yr 1900 is read simply as neunzehnhundert

Asking what the date is

This is how you as the engagement in German:

Welcher Tag ist heute? ... Es ist der erste Mai
What twenty-four hour period is today? …Today is the 1st of May

or also:

Welchen Tag haben wir heute? ... Heute haben wir den ersten Mai
What twenty-four hours practice we take? …. Today we accept the 1st of May

Pay close attention to the first example. The date is in the nominative and in the second one it is in the accusative.

Units of time (Zeiteinheiten)

Einheiten	Units
die Sekunde	second
die Minute	minute
die Stunde	hr
der Tag	day
die Woche	calendar week
der Monat	month
dice Jahreszeit	season
das Quartal das Vierteljahr	quarter
das Halbjahr das Semester	semester
das Jahr	year
das Jahrzehnt	decade
das Jahrhundert	century
das Jahrtausend	millennium

Seasons of the yr (die Jahreszeiten)

Jahreszeiten	Seasons
der Frühling	bound
der Sommer	summertime
der Herbst	autumn
der Winter	wintertime

Months (Monate)

Monate	Months
der Januar	January
der Februar	February
der März	March
der April	April
der Mai	May
der Juni	June
der Juli	July
der August	Baronial
der September	September
der Oktober	Oct
der November	November
der Dezember	December

Days of the week (Wochentage)

Wochentage	Days of the week
der Montag	Monday
der Dienstag	Tuesday
der Mittwoch	Wednesday
der Donnerstag	Thursday
der Freitag	Friday
der Samstag der Sonnabend	Saturday
der Sonntag	Dominicus

Parts of the day

	Parts of the day
das Morgengrauen	dawn (12 am - vi am)
der Morgen	forenoon (6 am - x am)
der Vormittag	tardily morning (10 am - 12 pm)
der Mittag	apex (12 pm - ii pm)
der Nachmittag	afternoon (ii pm - 4 pm)
der Abend	evening (4 pm - 7pm)
die Nacht	night (7pm - 12 am)

Before and After Christ (Decease)

vor Christus abbreviated: v. Chr. or v. C.
earlier Christ abbreviated: b.c.

nach Christus abbreviated: n. Chr. or n. C.
after Christ (death) abbreviated: a. c.

Related topics: Fourth dimension in High german, numbers in High german

3 Comments

Based on the article, it seems like the nominative is used for the date. So information technology would be "Heute is Donnerstag, der 26ten August 2015.