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- "En quel mois sommes-nous ?"
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I don't understand the difference between the english "what month are we in" and "what month are we on". I feel like as a native english speaker the fact that I don't know should hold some weight, but if there is some subtle difference between those two english sentences that a pedant might now better than myself, I would like to understand.
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I don't think so.
I believe 'dans' is used when something is physically inside something else, 'en' has more figurative meaning than literal.
Well, dans and en are both used with time words and phrases ("En avril" or "Dans les mois à venir"), so I think that's what lluqmana is wondering about here. I'm going to guess no because "en" seems to be reserved for specific named months and "dans" seems to be called for if the noun is modified like this one.
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thanks for the response
I actually wrote that before knowing the real difference when speaking about time-related words and then I found this article that cleared everything up for me.