Some day/Some days, Every day/Each day, None/Any day in Spanish.

Let’s use now the noun –DÍA– with the indefinite adjective –SOME-, –EVERY– and –NONE– that in communication matters, we do use always; The noun as we’ve said is going to be DAY, in its plural/singular mode – DÍA, DÍAS-:

ALGÚN DÍA

SOME DAY

◊ Note that in this case, we are seeing a singular/masculine noun, therefore, the indefinite adjective will be the masculine/singular –ALGÚN–.

ALGUNOS DÍAS

SOME DAYS

◊ Note that in this case, we are seeing a plural/masculine noun, therefore, the indefinite adjective will be masculine/plural -ALGUNOS-.

You might wonder what is the difference between the singular mode SOME DAY and the plural mode SOME DAYS. 

Well, basically when it is singular –ALGÚN DÍA– we are referring indeterminately to a small quantity of days, which means that you might refer to a one, two, three days… It can be that even more, but here we’re trying to express a small indeterminate quantity of days.

When it comes to plural –ALGUNOS DÍAS-, we are referring indeterminately to a BIGGER quantity of days compared to -ALGÚN DÍA-; How many? We do not know, that’s why we are using the indeterminate adjectives but for sure that is a bigger  quantity of days than -ALGÚN DÍA-.

Now is time to see the indefinite adjective –EVERY/ALL– using it with a noun –DAY– in its plural mode –DÍAS–; We do use only its plural form here because already the expression goes to a plural idea:

TODOS LOS DÍAS

ALL THE DAYS      

 (EVERY DAY)

◊ Note:

1. TODOS, is a plural/masculine indeterminate adjective, as -DAYS- is a masculine/plural noun
2. LOS, in this expression, we do keep the specific article plural/masculine to -DÍAS-
3. TODOS LOS DÍAS means exactly the same as –EVERY DAY-.

♦ Remember that  we do have another indeterminate adjective that remains the same in its masculine/feminine mode and it is used always in a singular form:

CADA  DÍA

EACH DAY

◊ Note:

1. CADA, is the indeterminate adjective EACH in English and it will come always along with a singular noun, even though expresses a big indeterminate quantity of days, it refers to a single day; Also, as we have explained above, the gender remains without any change in its masculine/feminine mode.

Now is time to see the indefinite adjective –NONE– using it with the noun –DAY– in its singular mode -DÍA.

Remember that these indefinite adjectives are not used in the same way in English, so the word that is closer to it is –NONE-. Using them, we do express a lack of quantity of the thing we are referring to. Basically, we do express an absence of that specific noun; So, using them, we do communicate that there is no one day –NONE DAY– that in English would be used like –ANY DAY– in its negative form to express a lack of quantity of days.

NINGÚN DÍA

NONE DAY

◊ Note that in this case, we are seeing a singular/masculine noun, therefore, the indefinite adjective will be the masculine/singular –NINGÚN-.

→ Remember that when we do express an absence of quantity we can’t make that idea plural, because 0 it can’t be in idea plural:

NINGUNOS DÍAS  

NONE DAYS

(INCORRECT)

So, remember the lesson overall:

In the next post, we are going to do something curious before using another noun; The difference between the plural –TODOS LOS DÍAS– and its singular mode –TODO EL DÍA-.It may surprise you…