In terms of the naughties, then 2010 starts a new decade. However, in terms of the 21st century, its second decade does not start until 2011. The tendency of people to define decades as ones with the same second last digit is out of synch with the proper way to count decades, and is one of the things that leads to confusion, like people mistakenly thinking that the 20th century and 2nd millennium ended at the end of 1999, when in fact they both ended at the end of 2000. Only the 1990s ended at the end of 1999. Properly, decades go from 1 to 10, not 0 to 9.
2010
Yes, he won actor of the decade last year/beggining of this year [2009/2010]
The "decade" of the 2000's includes the period from January 1, 2000 until December 31, 2009. If referring to the "first decade of the new Millennium", you could refer to the years 2001-2010. Because there was no "year zero" on the Gregorian calendar, each new millennium of 1000 years includes the final 1000th year (1000, 2000, etc.). However, a decade is not restricted by this convention.
no. The last year of a decade always ends in zero. The first decade started at year 1 and was 10 years long (year 1-10). Every decade to follow starts with a year ending with 1 and ends with a year ending in 0. The first day of this decade was January 1, 2001 and the last day will be December 31, 2010.
The year 2009 was in the 2000s.
2011Because the common calendar starts with year 1, its firstfull decade is the years 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on. So while the "2000s" comprises the years 2000 to 2009, the "201st decade" spans 2001 to 2010.
This question was asked in 2009, a decade after 1999.
Although any period of 10 years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of a calendar year, as in using "1960s" to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969.Because the common calendar starts with year 1, its firstfull decade is the years 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on. So while the "2000s" comprises the years 2000 to 2009, the "201st decade" spans 2001 to 2010. For this reason, most people would consider the fourth year of the decade to be the one ending in 4.
Although any period of 10 years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of a calendar year, as in using "1960s" to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969.Because the common calendar starts with year 1, its firstfull decade is the years 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on. So while the "2000s" comprises the years 2000 to 2009, the "201st decade" spans 2001 to 2010. For this reason, most people would consider the fourth year of the decade to be the one ending in 4.
well its a new decade but apart from that its just a year
If we are to use the precedent set in the previous century (and I do) then the first decade of a century is called the oughts. The year 2009 can also be called twenty ought nine. Slightly archaic, but we don't have any good replacement.
The year 2010-2019 would be observed as science literacy decade all over the country.