Quel jour sommes-nous?

"What is today's date?" is said "Quel jour sommes-nous ?" .

Days of the week are the following. Note that monday is the first day of a French week (a week=une semaine):

Days	Jours de la semaine
monday	lundi
tuesday	mardi
wednesday	mercredi
thursday	jeudi
friday	vendredi
saturday	samedi
sunday	dimanche

In French, samedi and dimanche are called "le week-end" ! It is pronounced the same as in English.

Here are the names of the months in French:

Months	Mois
january	janvier
february	février
march	mars
april	avril
may	mai
june	juin
july	juillet
august	août
september	septembre
october	octobre
november	novembre
december	décembre

A complete date is built on this model:

day day# month year

For example, when we wrote this page the date was:

mercredi 10 novembre 1999

A particular case occurs on the first day of the month. French write: "samedi 1^er janvier 2000". "er" means "premier" (first).

To the question "Quel jour sommes-nous ?", we could have answered:

• nous sommes le mercredi 10 novembre 1999
• or nous sommes le mercredi 10 novembre
• or nous sommes le mercredi 10
• or nous sommes le 10
• or nous sommes mercredi

N.B.: Date is sometimes written DD/MM/YYYY. For example, November 2nd 1999 is written 02/11/1999 or 2/11/1999.