SP101 Lecture 12: Sp101 l12
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Luego then salgo i leave live version discussion edit chapter comment report an error dialogue. Telling the time is easy in spanish, and very similar to english. So, son las tres y veinte would mean "it"s twenty past three". To ask the time, you just use the question que hora es? (literally: "what hour is it?"). However, this only works for times up to half-past the hour. For this, you have to use menos (meaning "less") instead of y (son las cuatro menos diez means "it"s ten to four". Other typical time-telling phrases are depicted in the table below. Que hora es: if there aren"t any minutes, just say son las cinco ("it"s 5 o"clock") or son las once ("it"s 11, remember: son means "they are", so son las only works for numbers greater than one. To say "it"s one o"clock", you have to say es la una.
