How do you say 2000 in English?

How to say the years after 2000. For the year 2000 you say (the year) two thousand. For the years 2001 to 2010, the most common way of saying the year is two thousand and + number. For the first years after 2010 you may hear two different alternatives.
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How do you read 2000 in English?

The aughts is a way of referring to the decade 2000 to 2009 in American English. The equivalent term used in British English is the noughties. These arise from the words aught and nought respectively, both meaning zero.
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How do you say the year 2020 in English?

The usual way to refer to years is to pronounce the first two digits together as one number, and the second two together as another number. The year 2020 will be "twenty-twenty," and the year 2115 will be "twenty-one-fifteen." There are other styles you might sometimes hear.
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How do you read 2005?

How to say the years after 2000
  1. 2001 = two thousand and one.
  2. 2005 = two thousand and five.
  3. 2008 = two thousand and eight.
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How is 2002 pronounced?

Therefore, it is incorrect to include the word 'and' when pronouncing a number. . . . The number 2002 is 'two thousand two. ' " (Perhaps those of us who referred to 2001 as "two thousand and one" were the ones who grew up reciting the rhyme, "In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.")
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How do you read 1400?

BUT to me '1400s' would refer to the years 1400-1409; to encompass 1400-1499 I would say 'fifteenth century'. 1410s = fourteen tens = 1410-1419 (the 'tens' is ugly, but it's all we've got!) 1420s = fourteen twenties = 1420-1429, then 'thirties', 'forties', 'fifties', etc. Might be a US/UK difference in usage?
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How do you read 2015?

All are correct ways to say the date of course, but the common usage is to generally far the quickest method of speaking, so 2015 is frequently spoken as 'twenty fifteen' simply because it is quicker to say it like this than to say 'two thousand and fifteen'. Both are correct though.
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How do you say the year 2004 in English?

2004 is pronounced "two thousand (and) four".
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How do you say year 1900 in English?

We would usually say “nineteen-hundred”. The year after, 1901, is pronounced “nineteen-oh-one”. Likewise the year the Great War started would be “nineteen-fourteen”.
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How do you read 2010?

The two main contenders are "twenty-ten" and "two thousand ten." Before the turn of the century, most people pronounced the years by chunking the first two numbers together and the last two numbers together. So we had "nineteen fifty," "nineteen eighty-five," and so on.
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How do you pronounce 2011?

♥”Twenty Eleven should be the proper way to pronounce it. Back in 1996 did we call it “One Thousand Nine-Hundred Ninety-Six” or “Nineteen-Hundred Ninety-Six? No, we did not. We called it “Nineteen Ninety-Six”.
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How do you read 2100?

You are correct. Americans (estadunidenses) usually say, "twenty-one hundred", but that is spoken American English only. If you are writing it out for a formal document (legal) use "two thousand one hundred".
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How do you say year 2003?

Yes, it is common enough to pronounce the year 2003 as "twenty oh three". After the year 1999, “nineteen ninety-nine”, no one pronounced 2000 as “twenty” anything, not as “twenty aught-aught” or “twenty and zero” or as “twenty oh oh”, but as the year “two thousand”.
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How do you say year 2019?

Americans usually say "twenty-nineteen" when talking about the year 2019.
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How do you say year 2101?

American English: The year twenty-one oh one; British English: The year twenty-one hundred and one; Tips: (We often add 'the year' at the beginning to make it clear that we are naming a year.)
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