Saying years

Years are read two ways:

• Years like 1995 are usually read in hundreds: neunzehnhundertfünfundneunzig
• From 2000 on, as normal numbers: 2024 = zweitausendvierundzwanzig

You’ll hear them inside the fixed phrase ich bin … geboren (I was born …). The year stands alone there, with no preposition: Ich bin 1995 geboren — never in 1995 or im 1995.