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Mi fecha de nacimiento es el tres de enero.

Mi fecha de nacimiento es el tres de enero.
My date of birth is the third of January.
From Lesson 48:Personal details (la edad, la fecha de nacimiento)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of Mi fecha de nacimiento es el tres de enero.

ser
to be
de
of
mi
my
tres
three
enero
January
la fecha
the date
el nacimiento
the birth

Questions & Answers about Mi fecha de nacimiento es el tres de enero.

Why is it fecha de nacimiento instead of nacimiento fecha?
In Spanish, you can't stack nouns together to describe something like we do in English with "birth date." Instead, you connect them with de (of). The phrase literally translates to "date of birth."
Why does the sentence use tres (three) instead of the Spanish word for "third"?
In Spanish, you use normal counting numbers (like one, two, three) for dates, not order numbers (like first, second, third). The only exception is the first day of the month, which is usually el primero. For all other days, just use the normal number, like el tres.
Why do we put el before tres?
When giving a specific date in Spanish, you always use the masculine word el (the) before the number. You can think of it as a shortened way of saying "the day three" (el día tres).
Why isn't the month capitalized in enero?
Unlike in English, months of the year and days of the week are never capitalized in Spanish, unless they happen to be the very first word in a sentence.

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