Breakdown of El sábado pasado celebramos mi cumpleaños en un restaurante.
un
a, an, some
en
in / on / by (means of transport) / about (after pensar)
el restaurante
the restaurant
mi
my
Questions & Answers about El sábado pasado celebramos mi cumpleaños en un restaurante.
Why does the sentence use El sábado instead of a word for 'on' Saturday?
In Spanish, you do not use a preposition like 'on' with days of the week. Instead, you just use the masculine definite article (el for singular, los for plural). In this sentence, el sábado translates to 'on Saturday' or 'Saturday'.
How do we know celebramos means 'we celebrated' in the past, rather than 'we celebrate' right now?
For regular -ar verbs like celebrar, the nosotros (we) form is exactly the same in both the present tense and the simple past tense (preterite). You have to rely on context clues. Here, the phrase el sábado pasado (last Saturday) makes it clear that the action happened in the past.
Why does cumpleaños end in an 's' if the sentence is only talking about one birthday?