![]() ![]() (We go on vacation every other year if we can.)Ģ. Vamos de vacaciones año por medio si es que podemos. (He asks me for money every other month, I'm sick of it.) Me pide dinero mes por medio, estoy harta. (This cat comes to visit me every other week.) (What are you doing on the weekend, are you free?)Įste gato me viene a visitar semana por medio. Weekend (short way of saying fin de semana) (This weekend I'm not going to do anything.) (Apparently the day after tomorrow there's going to be a storm.) ![]() Se supone que pasado mañana habrá tormenta. (He left the day before yesterday with his friend.) (Yesterday she told me she can come today.) (The sun in the morning is really pretty.) (I woke up first thing in the morning because of the rain.) Me desperté en la madrugada por la lluvia. Spanish Vocabulary for Telling Time SpanishĮarly morning, first thing in the morning The formula for using para is similar, however we switch the hour approaching and the minutes to the hour:Įs/Son + + para +. ![]() Here’s the formula for telling time with menos:Įs/Son + + menos +. We’ve also already seen an example of this with menos cuarto/cuarto para. Spanish is almost the same as English in regard to this. It’s quite forward-thinking if you think about it. In English, when you get to the second half of the hour on an analog clock, you can start telling the time by how long is left until the next hour. You can also tell the time with different prepositions in the following formulas, however they are slightly less common:Įs/Son + + y +. To say any time between the hour and half past, this formula is the most common:Įs/Son + +. Once you get past the 30-minute mark, you need to use menos or para and refer to the hour that is approaching, just like when you use “quarter to” in English:Įs/Son + + menos cuarto.Įs/Son + quarto + para +. Note that cuarto does end in o because it means “quarter” and the word is masculine. To say that it’s quarter past the hour, use this: Notice that it’s not y medio since hora is feminine. To say that it is half past the hour, use this formula: Now that you’ve got the basics of telling the time when the clock strikes five (son las cinco), seven (son las siete) and eleven (son las once), you can move on to what happens when it’s half past, quarter past and quarter to the hour. That’s why we say, “ Son las seis” (It’s six o’clock), for example. Because time is feminine, you should always use las and la to describe time, never el or los. We actually only use es for one o’clock and all times between 1:00 and 1:59: this is because one hour is singular. Apparently, time is a permanent entity and therefore doesn’t want to be described using estar, which suggests temporariness. Though it may be counterintuitive, we always use ser to tell the time, not estar. Now let’s take a deeper look at the components of this formula: So if the time just happens to be on the hour, you might say: SpanishĪnd if you need to review your numbers, you can do that here. Then to tell someone what the time is, you’ll need to follow this formula: Note that ¿Qué hora es? is the most common way to ask. ¿Tiene(s) la hora?(Do you have the time?) There are three main ways to ask for the time in Spanish: (Download) The Basics of Telling Time in Spanish This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. How to Practice Telling Time in Spanish.Half Past and Quarter Past/to in Spanish.In this post, we’ll teach you many time-related phrases and vocabulary to communicate effectively when you’re llegando tarde (running late) or de camino (on the way). ApHow to Tell Time in Spanish: The Ultimate Beginner’s GuideĮven though it’s a very useful skill and excellent practice of numbers, learning how to tell time (la hora) in Spanish is sometimes skipped by self-learners and classes. ![]()
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