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1.</u><u> The meaning of </u><u><em>¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?</em></u></h3>
In English, this means <em>What is today's date? </em>so, when telling the date in present, we use the verb ser whose conjugation in this case is es as indicated in the question, so the formula is:
<em>¿Cuál + es - conjugation of the verb ser + la fecha de hoy?</em>
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2.</u><u> How would we answer?</u></h3>
We must answer this question using the following formula:
<em>Hoy + es - conjugation of the verb ser + day plus month and year</em>
Therefore, this is as follows:
<em>- ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?</em>
<em>- Hoy es 3 de Octubre del 2018</em>