My progress in learning Spanish (Part 6): Que hora es (with video)
Hello friends, I welcome you all to the sixth part of my Spanish learning progress.
Each week I try to practice a lot to be able to learn some tangible things in spanish language. I hope to achieve my goal.
Today I'll tak about how to say the time in Spanish.
I have learnt that to ask what the time is in spanish:
¿Que hora es? = What is the time?
So in this post I'll talk about what I've learnt about answering that question above.
In other to know how to say the time, I have to know the numbers in spanish, and that was what my part two post was about.
If the time os on the hour, below is how it expressed in Spanish:
| Spanish | Time |
|---|---|
| Es la una | 1:00 |
| Son las dos | 2:00 |
| Son las tres | 3:00 |
| Son las cuatro | 4:00 |
| Son las cinco | 5:00 |
| Son las seis | 6:00 |
| Son las siete | 7:00 |
| Son las ocho | 8:00 |
| Son las nueve | 9:00 |
| Son las diez | 10:00 |
| Son las once | 11:00 |
| Son las doce | 12:00 |
As we know, the time is not always on the hour, so I had to learn also how to say, half past, quarter past, quarter to.
See the following examples:
4:30 = Son las cuatro y media
4:15 = Son las cuatro y cuarto
4:45 = son las cuatro menos cuarto
Most times the minutes is not in half or in quarter so to be more specific when telling someone the time in Spanish, it is similar to english. See below examples:
1:29 | Es la una y veintinueve
2:33| Son las dos y treinta y tres
4:55| Son las cuatro y cincuenta y cinco
Son las seis y diez. Own image @madilyn02
Sometimes we might need to indicate what time of the day it is. So the below can be done:
2:00 am | Son las dos de la mañana
2:00 pm | Son las dos de la tarde
10:00 pm | Son las diez de la noche
To summarize I'll include the video below:
I will like to talk about a word I learnt from a venezuelan friend. He told me that sometimes when we don't know what is exactly the time, but we know its past five or six or anything, we can say he below:
In English that can be said as 'its 8-something'.
The friend told me that the word Pico is mostly used by venezuelans and it might be different in other Spanish countries.
Time in spanish; Things that I have kept in mind
En punto = O'clock
mediodía = midday
tarde = Afternoon
mañana = Morning
noche = Night
Amanecer = Dawn
medianoche = midnight
Media = Half
Cuarto = Quarter
Temprano= early
I'm happy that with this medium I'm practicing my Spanish and I can share my progress step by step in spanish.
The time was not very difficult to learn thanks to a good friend.
See you in part 7.
Part 1: Spanish alphabets
Part 2: Spanish numbers
Part 3: Days of the week
Part 4: Dates in Spanish
Part 5: Basic colors
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Hola Madilyn, felicitaciones por tus avances en español, así como tú me a tocado aprender portugués y algo de Inglés y reconozco el esfuerzo que estás realizando sigue adelante 👍
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