HOW TO SAY YEARS IN ENGLISH ?
Years For the year 2000 you When
Are normally divided say (theyear) two thousand. a year ends
into two parts; the first
in a
For the years 2001 to 2010, number
digits. the most commonway of saying between 01
the year is twothousandand and 09,
+ number. forexample
1705, then
2001 = twothousandandone
into 19 and 84 so you 2005 = twothousandandfive
2008 = twothousandandeight
would
say nineteeneighty-four.
1066 = ten sixty-six
1652 = sixteenfifty-two
1941 = nineteenforty-one
2017 = twentyseventeen
For the first years after 2010
you may hear two different
alternatives.
twothousandandtwelve while
others say twentytwelve .
= seventeen hundred
of the 1800
letter O + = eighteenhundred
1508 =
fifteen
1709 =
O nine
1901 =
nineteen
O one
6. Match the dates with the expressions given.
a. ten sixtyeight
2. 1997 b. Nineteenothree
3. 1800 c. Eighteenhundred
4. 2005
d. twothousandandthirteen
5. 1903 e. nineteenninety seven
6. 1068 f. twothousandandfive
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
= thirteenhundred
as the name
seventeen
1. 2013
1300
1700
O eight
digitsbefore 00
pronounced
number.
2012 – Some people say
as the
and then hundred.
that lastpart
is
in 00 (e.g. 1600)
then the year is said
two digitsand the last two 1984 is divided
When a year ends