Proper Nouns (2/2)
Spanish: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 4.6.5
Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are names of specific people, places or things. In English, proper nouns always start with a capital letter.
Proper nouns in Spanish
- Most proper nouns begin with a capital letter in Spanish, but not all of them do.
- The following proper nouns DO NOT begin with a capital letter in Spanish.
Days of the week
- The days of the week DO NOT begin with a capital letter in Spanish.
- lunes – Monday
- martes – Tuesday
- miércoles – Wednesday
Other days of the week
- jueves – Thursday
- viernes – Friday
- sábado – Saturday
- domingo – Sunday
Months of the year
- The months of the year DO NOT begin with a capital letter in Spanish.
- enero – Thursday
- febrero – Friday
- marzo – Saturday
- abril – Sunday
- mayo - May
- junio - June
Other months of the year
- julio – July
- agosto – August
- septiembre – September
- octubre – October
- noviembre - November
- diciembre - December
Test yourself on Proper Nouns (2/2)
Choose the types of proper nouns that should not start with a capital letter in Spanish.