How to tell time in Spanish
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- Spanish for Beginners - Do you know how to ask the time in Spanish? What about understanding when someone tells you when that all-important bus or flight is leaving? What time is check-out or check-in? After this class, you'll know how to ask what the time is, and how to answer that question in several ways.
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Yes, we use military time but it is not very common and it is used in a formal context. To use it just make the rule Hour+Minutes plural, and make sure you learn the numbers from 12 (doce) to 24 (veinticuatro) to give the hour.
Sería, por ejemplo: Son la trece horas, quince minutos (Es la una y cuarto). Son las veintidós horas, veinte minutos (Son las diez veinte), and so on.
But what hour is Midnight ?? 0000 ?
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When you tell time on the plus side of the minutes, i.e. 1 to 29, you are adding the minutes. Therefore, 3:05 am /pm is "Son las tres y cinco de la
mañana OR de la tarde." In other words, you need to use the "y" in between the hour and the minutes.
Very helpful thanks!
Estoy de acuerdo, falta la ”y” .
She addressed that in this video.
@@ronarce771 Yes, I used to live on the Mexican border and Spanish speakers there omitted the "y" unless using media or cuarto but did not use "y" with the minutes. I also never heard the use of "menos" like they teach in Spanish classes in the US: Son las siete menos diez was not used but like the teacher said - Son diez para las siete or faltan diez para las siete or son las seis cincuenta.
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Great lesson! I think it's easier to stick with hours plus minutes. Maybe other people might feel differently but, I don't want to have Spanish be more complicated than it already is. You're doing a great job Ana!
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No, it is not wrong. It is correct; for example, "Te veo a las doce" (I will see you at twelve). Es correcto.
I love the way you say "OK" ;) Thank you for the lessons, you are doing really good job.
In the UK we can also say "it's twenty to twelve" so "son veinte para las doce" works for me. Great videos Ana, keep it up!
Sí, creo que en España muchas frases se dicen de manera diferente En la introducción de mi video (vídeo en España), hablo un poco de la variedad de una lengua y de la variedad de voces que la hablan.
What if we want to say 20 to 1. Will it be son veinte para las uno or es veinte para la uno??
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These are the different ways to say that time:
Son las doce y cuarenta (It's 12:40)
Son veinte para la una (It's 20 to 1)
Son veinte minutos para la una (It's 20 minutes to 1)
Es la una menos veinte [ It's 1 minus 20 minutes] [Round to the next hour & take away the minutes] ; This approach is no longer used I believe, but only works for the the left side of the clock dealing with above 30 minutes]
** You would say UNA because we are referring to the hour (la hora= the hour [ singular] & it's a feminine noun).
You would only say "para LAS _____" if the hour that follows it is 2-12, or the plural hours.
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In Spain we say the time quite different than that. I don't know in Latin American countries, but here we don't use 9:00am or 9:00pm. We say 9:00 (in the morning) and 21:00 (in the evening/night). And also, we don't say 9:45 the way it's said here. We say 9:35 (Diez menos veinticinco), 9:40 (Diez menos veinte), 9:45 (Nueve menos cuarto), 9:50 (Diez menos 10) and 9:55 (Diez menos cinco).
Thank you for this. I'm going to Spain next year and this is very helpful.
Eloines if it's in A. M - de la mañana and P. M - de la noche . Evng time is de la trade
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I think it’s generally a bit less common to use AM and PM in Europe, but more common in the American continent. But I think that’s fine. Even if you use the “infrequent” style people will get what you mean.
Pero en Latinoamérica decimos las horas de maneras distintas. A decir verdad, me pareció muy raro decir las horas con minutos sin la y. Ella como mexicana dice: Es la cinco mientras que acá en Sudamérica decimos: Es la una y cinco, no es la una cinco.
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May I add minutos like this 3:5 AM son las tres y cinco minutos de la mañana
Is it correct???
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I'm traveling in Costa Rica right now. Yesterday sitting in the water on a surf board, one of the local surfers asked me in English for the time. I decided I would reply in Spanish and how I learnt it was "son las once menos veinte". It is a correct way. However he giggled and gave me a fist bump. "Mi buen amigo, en Costa Rica puedes decir 'veinte para las once" : just like it's being taught in this video. I had to come home to check Butterfly to see how it is being taught. It's not until you travel do you learn more about the real everyday Spanish; if you don't mind reading: here's another example: I was sitting having lunch and this man asked for a "frio", I watched the waitress bring back a tin of fanta. I thought strange then that night, I was ordering some food when she asked me "que frio quiere": forgetting that I had heard that phrase earlier today, I was eh? How cold do I want?, "Como?" "que frio quiere" and she pointed to the fridge. Ah which soda would I like. This is taking my enjoyment of Spanish to a new level and I am more enthusiastic to keep learning more and more. Every day is a School Day. Pura Vida
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Lesson 3. Hora: Time. Ahora= now. Para ahora = for now. Y Cuarto: and A quarter. Y Media: and a half. Veinte minutos Para Las Doce = 20 minutes to 12.
In my book & class
We read if it is like 3:40 then we'll use
"Son las cuatro menos veinte''
That's because there's many ways to express time in Spanish. That isn't incorrect. It's just easier to say "It's 5 'til 2" for example
Yes, that's the version I learned, too. I didn't even know there were other ways.
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I wish you explained even the spain version, i think in spain they use the word "menos" after 30 minutes, like son las tres menos diez, for saying its ten past three and so on :-)
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Abbas Vallipour son Las tres menos diez means ten to three not ten past three. :)
Abbas Vallipour son Las tres y diez is ten past three
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Abbas Vallipour yeah thats how I also learned it if u wanna say 10 minutes to 3 (2:50) its tres menos diez...
We're learning that way :p and it confuses me
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In our spanish class we learned the pink time and we say "Son las doce menos veinte" for 11:40.
in some countries is correct ...
son las doce menos veinte =son veinte para las doce = son las doce cuarenta
Winston Zeddemore Shouldnt it be son las once cuarenta on the last one?
In my country just really old people say it this way. ¨Faltan veinte para las doce¨is what most people say.
THANK YOU for making clear that the correct way to ask the time is "qué hora es?", and that the correct answer is "es la una". I am so tired of hearing "qué horas son? and "son la una".
However, I have a problem with "Son las dos diez". Who speaks like that? a computer? How about, son las dos y diez...?
Otherwise, great class.
If you think about it, it makes sense. In English we say "It's two ten." Son las dos diez makes sense to me when I think of it that way.
I disagree. One cannot speak Spanish using the argument "in English we say" it like this. Otherwise we'd be putting adjectives before nouns too.
I completely agree; they are different languages and it would be incorrect to argue grammar based on another language. I've also noticed that some things are similar across languages while other things are very different which is why it's less surprising that "Son las dos diez" is one of multiple ways to communicate time.
Hahaha... Being trilingual myself, I often think in Spanish when speaking French. Fortunately, both languages share a common root and with some exceptions, they can be superimposed. However, when attempting that with French/English, or Spanish/English, the results can range from comical to downright disastrous. Having said this, I don't want to discourage anyone from learning. The videos are indeed very helpful.
I am native spanish speaker from Argentina and we rather say: dos y diez for 2:10 and tres menos diez for 2:50.
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How long have you been speaking english and how long did it take to become totally fluent? Thanks
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How do I say 12:59 in the second way ? "Es una para la una?"
and also, in Spanish, do we use 24 hours rule, or 12 hours + am/pm ?
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Falta un minuto para la una. Son las doce y cicuenta y nueve. Una para la una is correct but sounds funny, I rather round it and say ¨es la una¨ tell you the truth.
Y si el reloj marca 1: 02, yo digo:
«La una con dos colgando».
I really want to learn Spanish. I have been watching your lessons for 3 days. I'm from Greece and I see that all these are EXACTLY like Greek. Especially the time!!!!
I love your shows and prolly watched them all.. This is very helpful to a lot of my questions so keep up the great work! I just waiting on your lesson on past, present and future tenses use.... Thanks in Advance!!
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if it was 1 to 12 would it be. "es la uno para doce" or is it still "son las uno para doce" ?
...and vice versa, if it is 12:45, is it son quarto para una or with es ... ?
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In Spanish:
- 1: 40. The hour 1 is una. Always. If it is the hour "1" or "13", we say una.
But minutes is uno.
It is our way.
- 2:01. Las dos y uno. Las dos y un minuto.
- 13:59. Las dos menos uno. Las dos menos un minuto. La una y 59. La una y 59 minutos.
The way to say "what time is it" when the minutes are past the first 30 ones:
We do it as we do because is the way we learned in early stages of our Math classes.
30 - 1. We say 30 menos uno.
So... 20:48 can be: Las 9 menos 12. Las 9 menos 12 minutos.
CUARTO.
In terms of minutes: 15 = cuarto. 30 = media.
We say 1/4 = un (1) cuarto (/4).
1 x (1/4) = un cuarto.
60 minutes / 15 = 4. So, there are 4 cuartos in 1 hour. 4 x (1/4) = 1.
- 5:45. Son las 6 menos cuarto.
We don't say "las 6 menos un cuarto".
Nor "las 6 menos cuarto minutos".
"6 menos cuarto" comes from:
6 - 1/4. Overriding the word "un".
MEDIA.
1/2. We say un medio.
1 x (1/2) = un medio. Uno por un medio es (=) un medio.
Then why we say media to explain 30 minutes?
Because "hour" is femenin for us. Media hora. Your "half an hour" = our "media hora".
We think "media hora" but we say only... "media". Las 5 y media. 5:30.
That is our logic inside our language.
"Logic" cannot be compared between 2 languages.
You can compare logic within your language, only.
Because there is not a reference in terms of languages.
And when we are compairing things... we need a reference.
So... English cannot be compaired with Spanish. Nor Spanish with English.
Each language has its own logic.
We always say hours and then minutes... not minutes to hours.
In other kind of conversations, yes.
You can say in Spanish:
"Hurry up, John! 6 minutes left to..." (08:54).
The one and only case we say minutes before the hour.
"¡Corre, Juan! Faltan 6 minutos para...".
But, in terms of "what time is it"...
First the hours and 2nd, the minutes. Always.
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Queeni Pie But that is all about the time in Spanish. No more... and no less... sry
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12: 10 ...Son las doce y diez....you are missing the "y" Never heard anyone say son las doce diez. It's grammatically incorrect.
Atleast here in Mexico City, it's without "y".
Yeah, I was surprised at that too. In fact, at least in Spain, we use that "y" to sometimes shorten the expression to just saying "son y cinco", "son y veinte", etcetera, if it's impliedthe person who asks already knows the hour (obviously, it depends totally on the context).
Intl Brian but it is still incorrect and if you are going to teach proper Spanish , which is the type of Spanish teachers should teach the “y” should be used . Have a good day
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@@Maria63641 On the street and in real life, grammatically correctness doesn't exist. It's like English teachers confusing their poor ESL students with the importance of 'who' versus 'whom'. Even native English speakers don't bother, and that kind of grammatical nitpicking destroys the confidence of ESL students.
Even worse, no one speaks that way except in language teacher circles. I'd get laughed at for telling time that way in Mexico City. They would understand me, but give me a weird look, and if we were friends, might even correct me by saying "guey... nada más di 'son las doce diez' sin la 'y', es más común" (translation: "dude... just say it's twelve ten without the 'and', it's more common").
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Still a little confused on after 40
I'm glad I decided to start from the beginning (despite not being a beginner). I didn't know the "(number) para (next hour)" rule of telling time! I look forward to filling in more gaps as I go along.
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In the Phil., my country, it's pretty easy to master the telling the time, because our senior citizens still use those term. Phil. had been colonized by Spain in 1521-1898, but teaching Spanish had been totally stopped in public school which replaced by English. Thank you so much!
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