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¿Tu cumpleaños es en la primavera, el cuatro de abril?

¿Tu cumpleaños es en la primavera, el cuatro de abril?
Is your birthday in the spring, on April fourth?
From Lesson 55:Seasons and dates (el dos de mayo)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about ¿Tu cumpleaños es en la primavera, el cuatro de abril?

Why does the Spanish sentence use cuatro (four) instead of "fourth" for the date?
In Spanish, we use regular numbers like dos, tres, and cuatro for the days of the month, not ordinal numbers like second or fourth. The only exception is the first of the month, which is el primero.
Why do we say el cuatro to mean "on the fourth"?
To say that something happens "on" a specific date, Spanish uses the masculine article el. It is masculine because it secretly refers to the word el día (the day), so it is like saying "the day four of April".
Why isn't the month abril capitalized?
In Spanish, the months of the year and the days of the week are always written with lowercase letters, unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.
Why do we need the word la in en la primavera?
When talking about seasons in Spanish, you generally need to include the definite article (el or la). So even though we often just say "in spring" in English, Spanish uses en la primavera (in the spring).
Cumpleaños ends in an "s". Is it a plural word here?
It looks plural, but it is singular in this sentence! Cumpleaños is a combination word meaning "completes years". It always ends in "s" whether you are talking about one birthday or many. We know it is singular here because the sentence uses Tu (your, singular) and es (is).

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