Datum

German	English
Heute ist der vierzehnte März zweitausendsechs. (Heute ist der 14. März 2006.)	Today is the fourteenth of March two thousand six. (Today is 14 March 2006.)

Actually, there is not much to learn to say the date of today or when somebody was born.
You should, however, consider the following:

For data after 1 January 2000 we use: 2000 + the year

examples:

• Gestern war der zehnte März zweitausendsechs.
  (Yesterday was the 10th of March 2006.)
• Am ersten Januar zweitausend began das neue Jahrtausend.
  (The new millenium began on January 1st 2000.)

For data before 1 January 2000 we use: XX hundred + the year

examples:

• Sie wurde am vierzehnten Dezember neunzehnhundertachtzig geboren.
  (She was born December 14th 1980.)
• Am zwanzigsten Juli neunzehnhundertneunundsechzig landete Neil Armstrong auf dem Mond.
  (July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.)

As you can see, I used ordinal numbers for the days, which we have already covered.
So just the way to say the years in German is new to you.

hint
In all examples above I separated the different parts of the written year by hyphens. That's no correct spelling.
Actually, you have to write all words in a row but I find that makes it hard to read the years.
So, please do it like me for now and separate the different parts.

 

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