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The months of the year in Spanish, or meses del a\u00f1o<\/em> are fairly straightforward words that should be pretty easy to learn with a small amount of effort. You may have learned this pretty early on in your Spanish learning journey and just need a refresher, or you may be looking to teach yourself the months in Spanish.<\/p>\n Whatever your reasons for landing on this page, everything you need to know about the months in Spanish, and how to use them, is right here!<\/p>\n In Spanish, just like in English, the months take their names from Roman Empire origins. So you will notice that all the months sound very similar to their English counterparts.<\/p>\n So, the months of the year in Spanish are enero, febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Now you know what the months of the year are, but how do you make them stick?<\/p>\n Some ideas to remember the months in Spanish are:<\/p>\n The months of the year in Spanish are masculine and singular nouns. Although you won\u2019t normally use them with determiners and adjectives, if you do need to it is important to remember this. And luckily all the months have this in common.<\/p>\n In Spanish, three months can be adjectives as well as nouns. These are:<\/p>\n These words are not used very often, but they are sometimes used in literature to describe things typical of the time of year pertaining to a given month.<\/p>\n For example:<\/strong><\/p>\n Las hojas agoste\u00f1as<\/strong> comienzan a caerse. | August leaves start to fall down.<\/em><\/p>\n You may wonder what happens if you want to describe something from a month that doesn\u2019t have its own adjective. In these cases, you could just use de<\/em> + (month) to achieve the same effect.<\/p>\n Unlike in English, the months in Spanish do not<\/em> begin with capital letters.<\/p>\n When saying dates in Spanish, the day always comes before the month. This is the case in both written and spoken Spanish. Spanish dates always use cardinal numbers, instead of ordinal like we often use in English. The structure of a date in full is as follows:<\/p>\n El + (number) + de + month<\/p>\n For example:<\/strong><\/p>\n El seis de febrero | The sixth of February<\/em><\/p>\n Like in English, in Spanish it is sometimes useful to abbreviate the months of the year. However, unlike in English, in Spanish some of the months are kept at their original length while others are abbreviated.<\/p>\n The abbreviations of the months in Spanish are as follows:<\/p>\nWhat are the months in Spanish?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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A couple of things you may notice about the months in Spanish:<\/h3>\n
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How to remember the month names in Spanish<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Grammar: Important things to know about the months in Spanish<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Masculine and singular<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Spanish months as adjectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The months in Spanish are not capitalized<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Saying the date in Spanish<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Abbreviating the month names in Spanish<\/strong><\/h3>\n