SPAN 1100H Chapter 1.4: Telling Time in Spanish
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When telling time in spanish, always use. Qu hora es? asks (cid:498)what time is it? (cid:499: )f it is one o"clock, you say, (cid:498)es la una. (cid:499) (cid:498)son las dos (it is 2:00),(cid:499) (cid:498)son las tres (it is 3:00),(cid:499) etc. To tell the minutes after the hour when it is between 00:30 and a new hour (for example, between 1:30 and 2:00), you subtract the minutes from the new hour. It is then written in the form: next hour menos (minus) minutes until the next hour, ex: son las dos menos siete (it is 1:53, ex: es la una menos diez (it is 12:50). Y menos media cuarto en punto de la ma ana de la tarde de la noche el mediod a la medianoche: to be. And; used for adding minutes to an hour. Es la/ son las (cid:523)dos y cuarto(cid:524).
