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Tengo mucho calor en julio y agosto.

Tengo mucho calor en julio y agosto.
I am very hot in July and August.
From Lesson 47:Months of the year·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Tengo mucho calor en julio y agosto.

Why aren't julio and agosto capitalized?
In Spanish, the months of the year are not capitalized unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence. So, July is always written as julio and August as agosto.
Do we always use en to say something happens in a certain month?
Yes! Just like in English, you use the word en before a month to say an event takes place then, such as en julio for in July.
The English translation says 'I am', but doesn't tengo mean 'I have'?
Exactly! In Spanish, you do not say that you are hot. Instead, you say that you have heat. Tengo means I have, and calor is the noun for heat. This is a very common pattern for expressing physical feelings in Spanish.
Why do we use mucho calor instead of muy calor if it translates to 'very hot'?
Because calor is a noun meaning heat, you have to use mucho, which means a lot of or much. You are literally saying I have a lot of heat. The word muy translates to very, but it is only used with describing words, not nouns.

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