Dates in Spanish

[iamscared11111]

Sorry if I'm posting too much, but is it okay to use "En el mil novecientos veinte y dos...(blah blah blah happened...)"? Or would you get rid of the el?

In 1922...

What about "En el trece de julio de mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro..."?

On July 13, 1954...

Comments

[itsmagnetic]

i second this.

[voweldispersion]

"En el mil novecientos veinte y dos"

Get rid of the el

"En el trece de julio de mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro..."

Actually, get rid of the en. The only instance in which I can conceive you would need that level of specification is on legal documents, where you say something like "en el tercer décimo dia del mes de julio de (-l año) mil novecientos..."

Yep.

-Ed

[dasku]

For the first one you would probably lose "el" although it doesn't sound that bad with it.

In the second one you have to get rid of "en", but "el" has to stay.

I hope that helps :)

[sparkofcreation]

En mil novecientos veintidós... (surprised no one else caught that!*)
El trece de julio de mil novecientos cincuenta y cuatro.

*But*:
1. It is considered correct to *say* (not necessarily write) "En el dos mil dos..."
2. It's common to omit the "mil novecientos" if referring to fairly recent years. "En el noventa y seis me trasladé a Virginia..." That's pretty informal, I wouldn't write it in a formal context.

*the numbers from 21-29 are: veintiuno, veintidós, veintitrés, veinticuatro, veinticinco, veintiséis, veintisiete, veintiocho, veintinueve.

[sparkofcreation]

Oh, and about #1 (mine) that applies to numbers from 2000 on.

Basically there's some grammatical reason that "el dos mil" is correct, and while it's technically [I mean, if you get *really* technical] ungrammatical to say "el dos mil uno" everyone does it, so it's considered okay to do so in speech but not writing (unless you're writing something to sound like speech, of course).