Today is Cinco de Mayo. If you speak Spanish, you know it means the 5th of May, or May 5th.
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday marking the victory of Mexican troops over French forces in Puebla, Mexico, on May 5, 1862. In the United States, it’s a party day full of margaritas, Mexican food, drinking and celebration. Many bars and restaurants have Cinco de Mayo parties.
There are many ways to ask about dates in English. Here are some examples:
What’s today?
What is today?
What’s today’s date?
What is today’s date?
What’s the date?
What date were you born on?
What date did it happen?
What dates will you be here?
Sometimes “when” is used when asking about dates:
When were you born?
When will you graduate?
When did it happen?
When was it?
When will you be in California?
You can answer any of these ways:
It’s the 5th.
The 5th.
Today is May 5th.
Today is the 5th.
Today’s the 5th.
The date is May 5th.
It’s the 5th of May.
I was born on May 5th.
I was born on the 5th.
It happened on May 5th.
It happened on the 5th.
I was born in nineteen ninety.
In two thousand one.
I’ll graduate on the 5th.
I will graduate in twenty seventeen.
I’ll be there the 10th through the 15th.
To speak years, most Americans say 2000 + number for years above 2000:
It’s two thousand fifteen.
She was born in two thousand one.
They sometimes add in the “and” before the year:
She got married in two thousand and ten.
Except for 2000:
We met in the year two thousand.
We met in two thousand.
Sometimes they combine numbers:
It happened in twenty thirteen.
It’s twenty fifteen.
She was born in nineteen eighty.
I’ll graduate in twenty seventeen.
