| Hello everyone! |
| Welcome back to ItalianPod101.com. |
| My name is Desy. |
| Mi chiamo Desy. |
| And in this video, we're going to talk about time. |
| Che ore sono? |
| It's a question. |
| What time is it? |
| First of all, let's clarify that even though the word tempo does mean time, we also use |
| that for weather like che tempo fa, how's the weather like? |
| So we don't say che tempo è for time but we use the word ore which is hours. |
| The good news is that you don't have to worry about singular or plural because you can either |
| say che ora è, so singular, un'ora, an hour, che ora è, or che ore sono, plural, hours, |
| che ore sono. |
| Even though for the question you don't have to think about singular or plural, you just |
| have to combine it, right? |
| So if you use ora, then you use the singular form of the verb to be, ora è, che ora è, |
| while if you use the plural ore, then you use the plural form of the verb to be, che |
| ore sono. |
| That's the only thing that you have to think for the answer as well. |
| And what I mean is that when you say one, so it's one, I am or PM, we're going to see |
| how to say that later, you just have to say è l'una, because it's singular, right? |
| Just one, one hour, so è l'una. |
| And that's the only case when you use è. |
| For the rest, you just use sono, plural, because it's always more than one if it's not l'una, |
| right? |
| Follow me. |
| For example, sono le due, sono le due, it means it's two o'clock, che ore sono, sono |
| le dieci, what time is it? |
| It's ten, sono le dieci. |
| If you want to add sono le dieci in punto, it means it's ten o'clock, in punto, punto, |
| punto literally means dot, so it's just ten, le dieci in punto. |
| While in English you say, for example, it's five past four, five past four, so five minutes |
| past four o'clock, we just add and, and to the hours to say the minutes as well, so we |
| say sono le quattro, it's four, è cinque, sono le quattro, è cinque, and that implies |
| five minutes, sono le quattro, è cinque minuti, it's four and five minutes, five past four, |
| sono le quattro, è dieci minuti, ten past four, sono le quattro, è quindici minuti, |
| it's fifteen past four. |
| Of course, when you want to say the time, you have to know numbers as well, but there |
| are some expressions that don't involve numbers, not at all, but that can help sometimes. |
| For example, if you don't want to say and fifteen, so quindici minuti, quindici minuti, |
| you can say un quarto, un quarto, a quarter, dodici, twelve, è un quarto, sono le dodici, |
| è un quarto, it's twelve and fifteen. |
| Be careful though, because when it's half, we don't say two quarters past twelve, but |
| we use the word mezza, which literally means half, and we use that with the female exception |
| because ora is feminine, ora, so sono le dodici e mezza, sono le nove e mezza, it's |
| half past nine, or it's half past twelve, dodici e mezza, nove e mezza, or of course, |
| you can say dodici e trenta, or nove e trenta, nine and thirty, twelve thirty, nove e trenta, |
| while if it's twelve forty five, so you can either say dodici e quaranta cinque, quaranta |
| cinque, forty five, or you can say a quarter to one, è l'una meno un quarto, meno literally |
| means less, minus, so it's one, minus a quarter, minus a quarter, è l'una meno un quarto, l'una |
| meno un quarto, quindici minuti all'una, fifteen minutes to one, and this meno word, which |
| as I said means minus, can be used with other numbers as well, for example, |
| of course, when you're asking what time it is, it's kind of obvious, like if it's day |
| or night, right, but if you want to specify, you can say è l'una del mattino, it's one |
| a.m., mattino is morning, del mattino, so of the morning, l'una del mattino, or l'una |
| del pomeriggio, afternoon, del pomeriggio, pomeriggio, and talking about parts of the |
| we have mattino, as we just said, it's morning, let's say odio svegliarmi presto al mattino, |
| I hate waking up early in the morning, odio, I know it's a strong word, but it's true, |
| odio, I hate, svegliarmi, waking up, svegliarmi, presto, early, presto, al mattino, in the |
| mornings, odio svegliarmi presto al mattino, let me sleep, in the middle of the day, we |
| have midday, mezzo giorno, as I said before, mezza means half, but also in the middle, |
| so mezzo giorno, the half of the day, in the middle of the day, mezzo giorno, then we |
| have pomeriggio, pomeriggio, afternoon, afternoon, pomeriggio, sera, evening, sera, and then |
| notte, when it's night, right, notte, and same as midday, we have midnight, so if midday |
| was mezzo giorno, midnight will be mezzanotte, mezza, just because notte is feminine, mezzanotte |
| while mezzogiorno, dormo, I sleep, sempre, always, before, prima di mezzanotte, mezzanotte, |
| I always sleep before midnight, dormo sempre prima di mezzanotte, that's a good habit |
| but it's a lie for me, that's why I hate waking up early in the morning, so if you |
| don't want to ask what time it is, but at what time something happens or happened, then |
| you use the expression a che ora, literally at what time, a che ora, what time does the |
| movie start, a che ora inizia il film, a che ora, what time inizia il film, does the |
| movie start, so I have a question for you, a che ora sei nato, what time were you born, |
| a che ora sei nato? Io sono nata, I was born alle otto di sera, I was born at 8 o'clock |
| in the evening, Io sono nata alle otto di sera, I was born at 8 o'clock in the evening. |
| Thank you for watching, I hope this video was useful, my advice is to go and revise |
| numbers as well, because that's something that you need to tell the time and if you |
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| most fun way possible. I'll see you soon, thank you for watching, bye bye, ciao ciao! |
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