Learn German! Days and Months in German language!

Let’s now explore the names of days and months in German.  The concept ‘Tag’  or ‘Tage’ in the plural, which stands for ‘Day’ in English. ‘Monat’ is referred to month.

In German, Monday and Tuesday are known as ‘Montag’ & ‘Dienstag’ (Deens-taag) respectively, while Wednesday is called as ‘Mittwoch’ (Meett- vokh)(Mitt denotes middle & Woch means a week, indicating that Wednesday is the middle of the week). ‘Donnerstag’ is the name for Thursday. Friday is known as ‘Freitag’ (Fray-Tag), while Saturday and Sunday are known as ‘Samstag’ ( Zams-Tag) and ‘Sonntag’( Zon-Tag), respectively.

Let’s move on to learning the names of the months now that we are familiar with the names of the days.  As I said  above, the German word for month is ‘Monat’ and ‘Monate’ (Monat-a) in the plural. January is called ‘Januar’( Yaa-noo-aar), and February is called ‘Februar’ (Fe-broo-ahr). March is called ‘März’ ( Mehrtz) and April is called ‘April’( Aah-pril).May is ‘Mai’ (Maa-ee). June is ‘Juni’ (Yoo-nee) and July is ‘Juli’ (Yoo-lee). Since the letter “J” in English is pronounced as “Y” in German, January is prnounced as ‘Yaa-noo-ahr’ and June and July are prnounced as ‘Yoo-nee’ and ‘Yoo-lee’, respectively. 

August is called as ‘August’ (Ow-goost), whereas September has the same spelling as English that’s ‘September’ but different pronunciation in German which is ‘tZehptember’. Here too an important point is that the ‘S’ in English is pronounced like the ‘tZ’ ( ‘t’ is pronounced silently) in German, which is why English September is prnounced as ‘tZehptember’ in German.

October and November are pronounced exactly the same in English and German, however the English October is spelled as ‘Oktober’ in German. 
‘Dezember’ ( Deh-tsem-ber) is the name for December, though.

Thus, we have become familiar with the names of Days and Months in German. Let’s uncover the different notions in the subsequent post. Stay tuned!

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