Dates & Calendar

The days of the week each have a gender and come from Old High German or Latin, so practice them in order to plan your week.

The months are all masculine in German and come from Latin names, so learn them for talking about seasons and planning ahead.

Seasons in German are neuter and used for describing weather and setting activities, so learn their names and typical months.

Dates in German usually put the day first then the month, and you say the month in the dative case after am for specific days.

Years are read as numbers and centuries as ordinal numbers; use Im Jahr to specify a year and im plus ordinal for centuries and decades.

This short list includes key words for time and date that help you ask and answer questions about when things happen.

Dates turn on knowing the days, months, and key phrases for putting them together; practice saying and writing them in the typical German order.