Months of the Year & Days of the Week

Dates have been used for a long time by humans for keeping track of the passage of time. They help us identify events, relate them and study the causes. In fact, several important facts about events of history are understood by the scientific study of the dates of their occurrence. In order to express the date, you should know the days of the week and the months of the year in French. All months, days of the week in French are masculine and are not write in capital letters unless they are used at the beginning of a sentence.

Days of the week ( Les jours de la semaine )

As in English french calendars also starts with Monday as the first day of the week and ends with Sunday . Given below the table of days with pronunciation .

French	Pronunciation	Day
lundi	luhn-dee	Monday
mardi	mahr-dee	Tuesday
mercredi	mehr-cruh-dee	Wednesday
jeudi	juh-dee	Thursday
vendredi	vahn-druh-dee	Friday
samedi	sahm-dee	Saturday
dimanche	dee-mansh	Sunday

Adding the article le before the day of the week indicates “every” plus the day.

Hier = yestesday

Aujourd’hui = today

Demain = tomorrow

Question 1 C’est quel jour aujourd’hui ?

Answer Aujourd’hui , c’est lundi .

Months (Les mois de l’année )

The French months are simple to remember; they all sound similar to their English versions.

French	Pronunciation	Month
janvier	jahn-veeay	January
février	fay-vreeay	February
mars	mahrs	March
avril	ah-vreel	April
mai	may	May
juin	jwehn	June
juillet	jwee-ay	July
août	ah-oot	August
septembre	sep-tahm-br	September
octobre	oc-toe-br	October
novembre	no-vehm-br	November
décembre	day-sehm-br	December