What month were you born in? vs In what month were you born?

Both phrases are correct, but "What month were you born in?" is more commonly used in everyday conversation. The difference in word order between the two phrases does not affect the overall meaning or grammatical correctness.

Last updated: March 26, 2024 • 3856 views

What month were you born in?

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is a common way to ask someone about the month they were born in. It is straightforward and easy to understand.

Examples:

What month were you born in?
What day were you born on?
What year were you born in?
What season were you born in?
What time were you born at?

Show examples from the web [+]

And were you born in Philadelphia?
Were you born in Ireland, Katy?
Were you born in a barn?
Were you born in this country?
Were you born in a town called Akaltara?
And were you born in Philadelphia? Yes.
Come on you guys, were you born in a barn?
Were you born in Starling City May 16th, 1985?
Drinking the basalmic. What, were you born in a cave?
Were you born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania?
Were you born in Ossining, New York?
Were you born in the Year of the Ox?
Were you born in Spain, by any chance?
Were you born in the USA or something?
- Where were you born? - Madison, Wisconsin.
Why were you born... devil incarnate...
- And where were you born?
Where were you born, Taktra?
I mean, were you born clothed?
Were you born with this burning desire to write?

Alternatives:

In what month were you born?
In which month were you born?
Which month were you born in?
Which month were you born?
What month were you born?

In what month were you born?

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in English.

This phrase is also grammatically correct and can be used to ask about the month someone was born in. It has a slightly more formal tone compared to the other phrase.

Examples:

In what month were you born?
In what year were you born?
In which season were you born?
In which city were you born?
In which country were you born?

Show examples from the web [+]

So in what province in Canada were you born?
- Where were you born? - Madison, Wisconsin.
- And where were you born?
Okay, where were you born?
Another question first: where were you born?
- What year were you born?
I mean, where were you born?
Listen, what time were you born?
(Atwater) - When were you born?
- What year were you born?
Tell me Raphael, when were you born?
I must know the truth: where were you born?
And you, Mr. Fletch, where were you born?
Perhaps you could answer a few questions, like... where were you born?
Boy... ...where in Jamaica were you born?
But I don't recognize this - When were you born?
Why were you born... devil incarnate...
And were you born in Philadelphia?
Were you born in Ireland, Katy?
Where were you born, Taktra?

Alternatives:

What month were you born in?
In which month were you born?
Which month were you born in?
Which month were you born?
What month were you born?

What Our Customers Are Saying

Our customers love us! We have an average rating of 4.79 stars based on 283,125 votes.
Also check out our 2,100+ reviews on TrustPilot (4.9).

"Thank you!"
Sachi Nakama July 2024
"I have literally been through chat, PI, claude, bard and bing and I got conflicting answers! Thank you! Human intelligence reigns!"
Retha July 2024
"Faster than AI"
CYNTHIA December 2023
"This was very helpful and I personally think this site is the best."
Kaden October 2023
"It was extremely thorough and very helpful!"
imperialelisa October 2023
"7 years without any disappointment. Always 100% satisfied. You guys are the best in the world at what you do. Thank you so much :)"
Zubair Alam October 2023
"In a world of text messages and online communication, this is great to have as a live tool. Thank you."
Selena October 2023
"Without textranch I would be stuck!"
宏祐 October 2023
"Accuracy and fast response. Personal comments from editor. Thank you."
Clh September 2023
"I wasn't aware of this service, it's fascinating and more reliable than standard IA tools available on the internet"
Arturo September 2023
"The fact that you can get reliable fast feedback on your texts."
Vinicius Antonio August 2023
"you guys are better than grammarly i'm being honest here"
ordinary July 2023
"OMG! This is really good than any other text correction tools I've used so far. Highly recommend this."
Vehan July 2023
"Very fast and accurate. thank you."
mojtaba July 2023
"I love this app because it's help to writing skills all of students ♥️"
Tarisini July 2023
"This was exactly the mistake I was looking for, the wording dind´t sound right at first. Better than grammarly!"
Ente July 2023
"The immediate help that I received was reassuring and very satisfactory. Thanks."
priiiyanshuu July 2023
"this helps A LOT for my studies."
kathnunez02 June 2023
"Woow!! I would never have expected such precision! Thank you soooo much!!"
Berta June 2023
"Real Time Editor and not AI. Many Thanks."
Priya June 2023
"The very first thing excites me about Textranch is how much your editors care."
sepideh June 2023
"The fact that texts are checked by human editors rather than by AI, etc. I appreciate this!"
Анна June 2023
"Feel welcome, immediate response, high quality feedback"
martin.roy June 2023
"This is the best app that I have ever seen"
Burulai May 2023

What month were you born in? vs In what month were you born?