Breakdown of El verano empieza el veintiuno de junio.
de
from / of
empezar
to start / to begin
veintiuno
twenty-one
junio
June
Questions & Answers about El verano empieza el veintiuno de junio.
Why do we say El verano instead of just verano?
In Spanish, when a season is the subject of a sentence, you must include the definite article (el or la). Even though we just say "Summer starts" in English, Spanish requires El verano empieza (literally "The summer starts").
Why is the date written as veintiuno (twenty-one) instead of "twenty-first"?
For dates in Spanish, you use regular numbers like veintiuno instead of ordinal numbers like "twenty-first". The only exception is the first day of the month, which uses the word primero (first). The standard format for dates is el + number + de + month.
Is it a mistake that junio isn't capitalized?