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1. Say about days and months
Before learning how to ask about the date in Vietnamese, we will learn to how to say days and months first.
Unlike English or other languages, numbers are used to indicate days in a week and months in a year in Vietnamese.
* Days in week: The combination of “Thứ” with numbers starting from 2 to 7 will create the days in a week. However, there is no certain structure for saying “Sunday” in Vietnamese. We have the list of days as below:
* Months in year: Similar to the way of how to say days in week, the combination of “tháng/month” with numbers starting from 1 to 12 creates the months in Vietnamese. We have the list of months as below:
2. Ask and tell about days in week
The following sentences are examples to ask about days in Vietnamese:
- [What day is today? What day is today?
- [What day is tomorrow? What day is tomorrow?
- [April 8] in? What day is April 8th?
From the above sentences, we can have the analysis as below:
Hôm nay/Today, Ngày mai/Tomorrow, Ngày 8 tháng 4/the eighth of April are acted as the subject in the sentence
Là/to be verb is acted as the verb in the sentence
Thứ mấy/which day is acted as the object in the sentence
Therefore, we have the structure of asking about days in Vietnamese as follows:
[Date] in?
To reply the question, “[date] là [day in week]” structure is used.
Examples:
- [Today] is [Monday] Today is Monday.
- [Tomorrow] is [Tuesday] Tomorrow is Thursday.
- [April 8] is [Monday] is Monday 8th April.
3. Say about dates in month
In lesson 3, we already know how to say numbers in Vietnamese. “Ngày” is combined with numbers starting from 1 to 31 to indicate the dates in month. However, for date from 1-10, mùng/or mồng is added before them to make it sound more natural.
For example:
- On st / 2nd: 2nd
- On th / 10th: 10th
- Day 15: 15th
- Day 31: 31st
To say both date and month: Unlike English, Date is put before month in Vietnamese. Therefore, instead of saying “Tháng 4 ngày mùng 8” (April 8th), it is said “Ngày mùng 8 tháng 4”.
4. Ask and tell about the date
Below are the sentences used to ask about the date in Vietnamese:
"Today is the date?" / "Today is the day how much?"
In which:
Hôm nay/today is acted as subject in the sentence
Là/to be verb is acted as the verb in the sentence
Ngày mấy/ngày bao nhiêu/which date is acted as the objective in the question
To reply, We say, "Today is the day [date]"
Example: Today is the 8th of April / Today is April 8th
Note:
- “Hôm nay/today” can be replaced by “Hôm qua/yesterday” or “Ngày mai/tomorrow depend on what date you want to ask.
Exercises:
- Ask and tell about day
a) Today / Thursday
b) Today / Monday
c) tomorrow / Sunday
d) April 9 / Tuesday
For example:
Q: What day is today? (Question: What day is today?)
A: Today is Thursday (Answer: Today is Thursday)
Ask and tell about date:
a) Today / June 10
b) Tomorrow / October 27
c) Saturday / 16th
For example:
Q: Today is the date? (Question: What date is today?)
A: Today is the 10th of May 6. (Answer: Today is June 10th)
Keys to Exercises:
- Ask and tell about day:
b) Today / Monday
Q. Yesterday in? (Question: What is the day yesterday?)
A: Today is Monday (Answer: Yesterday is Monday)
c) tomorrow / Sunday
Q: What day is tomorrow? (Question: What is the day tomorrow?)
A: Tomorrow is Sunday (Answer: Tomorrow is Sunday)
d) April 9 / Tuesday
Q: On April 9 th in? (Question: What is the day on April 9th?)
A: The first day is Tuesday April 9 (Answer: It's Tuesday)
- Ask and tell about date:
b) Tomorrow / October 27
Q: Tomorrow is the date? (Question: What is the date tomorrow?)
A: Tomorrow is October 27 (Answer: Tomorrow is 27th October)
c) Saturday / 16th
Question: Saturday is the date? (Question: What is the date on Saturday?)
Answer: Saturday is the 16th (Answer: It's the 16th.)
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