How do you say "I am in "first grade" or "second grade" etc" ?

Question

If you want to say "I am in sixth grade" do you say "Yo soy sexto grado."? Or does that mean that I am saying "I am sixth grade"? Help!

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Answer 1

What you have said is: I am sixth grade.

You are a person and not a grade, but you are in a grade, so we say: Yo estoy en el sexto grado.

We use ser to indicate the nature of something. We use estar to indicate the state of something.

So...is it "estoy en sexto grado" or "yo estoy en el sexto grado"? Or there is no difference in both because they mean the same thing? - PandaLover_11, Jan 24, 2015

estoy en el sexto grado :) - FELIZ77, Jan 24, 2015

Answer 2

There are a number of different ways of saying this and the "correct" way can depend on where you are in the Spanish-speaking world. I think you will be understood if you say, "Estoy en sexto grado." Sometimes people say "grado escolar." I am certain there are other ways, however.