Tick-Tock Español: Your Guide to Telling Time in Spanish

Summary

该视频讲解了如何用西班牙语询问和表达时间。首先，视频解释了西班牙语中“它”是隐含的，并展示了如何说“现在几点了”。接着，介绍了表示时间的两种方式：“es la”和“son las”，以及如何使用“una”来表示1点，因为小时是阴性名词。此外，视频还讨论了特殊的时间表达，如正午（mediodía）和午夜（medianoche），以及如何在小时后加上分钟。在表示半小时、四分之一小时或某个时刻前几分钟时，也有不同的表达方法。最后，视频还教了如何描述事件发生的时间，如早上、下午或晚上。

Takeaways

• 😀 在西班牙语中问时间时不需要明确的‘它’，是隐含的。
• ⏰ 当说'现在是一点钟'时，使用‘es la una’，因为‘una’表示小时是阴性。
• 🕑 对于其他时间，如‘两点钟’，使用‘son las dos’，‘las’始终用于表示时间。
• 🌞 中午用‘mediodía’表示，午夜则用‘medianoche’。
• 🕒 当时间超过30分钟时，可以说‘menos’，例如8:50可以说‘son las nueve menos diez’。
• 🕓 15分钟可以用‘cuarto’表示，30分钟则用‘media’来表示半小时。
• 🎯 如果要表示事件发生的时间，使用‘a las’表示‘在某个时间’。
• 🌅 早上用‘la mañana’，下午用‘la tarde’，晚上用‘la noche’来表示时间段。
• 📏 当时间明确时，如‘上午八点’，应使用‘de’来表示‘在某时间的某段’，例如‘a las ocho de la mañana’。
• 👍 练习时间表达时，反复观察时钟并尝试用西班牙语表达，这样会更快掌握。

Q & A

如何用西班牙语询问现在几点了？

我们可以问“¿Qué hora es?”，其中‘it’是隐含的，不像英语需要明确表达。

如何用西班牙语表达‘现在是一点’？

可以说“Es la una”，其中‘una’用来描述小时，因‘hora’是阴性名词。

当时间不是一点时，用什么表达方式？

可以用‘Son las’加上相应的小时数，例如“Son las dos”表示‘现在是两点’。

如何用西班牙语表达‘正午’和‘午夜’？

‘正午’是‘El mediodía’，‘午夜’是‘La medianoche’。

如何表达具体的分钟，例如‘现在是2点05分’？

可以说“Son las dos y cinco”，其中‘y’表示‘和’，类似英语的‘and’。

在西班牙语中，如何表达‘15分钟’？

可以用‘quince’或‘cuarto’，例如“Son las once y cuarto”表示‘现在是11点15分’。

如何表达半小时（30分钟）？

可以用‘media’表示30分钟，例如“Es la una y media”表示‘现在是1点30分’。

如何用西班牙语表达‘差10分钟9点’？

可以说“Son las nueve menos diez”，即‘9点差10分钟’。

如何表示某个事件发生的时间，例如‘会议在1点’？

可以说“A la una”，其中‘a’表示‘在’，用来表达事件发生的时间。

如何表达事件发生的具体时间段，例如‘在早上8点’？

可以说“A las ocho de la mañana”，其中‘de’用在具体时间前，表示某个时间段。

Outlines

00:00

⏰ 如何用西班牙语表达时间

这一段介绍了在西班牙语中如何询问“现在几点了？”以及如何回答。与英语不同，西班牙语中 'it' 这个代词并不直接使用，更多是隐含的。描述时间时，有两种不同的方式，如果是'一点钟'，需要使用 'es la'，因为 'hora'（小时）是阴性名词。而对于其他时间点，使用 'son las'，如 'son las dos' 表示两点。还讨论了“钟点”这个词在英语中常见，但在西班牙语中并不使用。

05:03

🕛 特殊时间表达：正午和午夜

这一段讨论了如何在西班牙语中表达特殊时间，如正午和午夜。正午使用 'mediodía'，而午夜使用 'medianoche'。当要陈述“现在是正午”或“现在是午夜”时，直接用 'es mediodía' 和 'es medianoche'。接下来进入了分钟的表达，例如 'son las dos y cinco' 表示2:05。

10:07

⌛ 使用 'menos' 表达时间

这一段详细介绍了如何在超过30分钟时使用 'menos' 来表达时间。例如，8:50 可以说成 'son las nueve menos diez'，表示“差10分钟9点”。这种表达方式类似于英语中的“10 minutes to 9”。还给出了一些例子，例如 7:55 可以说成 'son las ocho menos cinco'。

🕑 特殊场合下的时间表达

这一段解释了如何在特定时间表达时使用介词 'a'，如“比赛几点开始？”或“你希望我几点到？” 在这种情况下，西班牙语中使用 'a las' 来表达“在几点”，例如 'a las diez' 表示“在10点”。特别注意的是，西班牙语中 'las' 始终存在于时间表达中，只是根据情况更改 'son las' 或 'a las'。

🌅 表达一天中的时间段

最后一段讨论了如何用西班牙语表达一天中的时间，如早晨、下午和晚上。'la mañana' 表示早晨，'la tarde' 表示下午，而 'la noche' 表示晚上。当说到具体时间点时，如果是确切的时间，需要用 'de' 而不是 'en'，例如 'a las ocho de la mañana'（早上8点）。这一部分还鼓励学生多练习，频繁查看时间，并用西班牙语表达出来。

Keywords

💡时间

在视频中，时间是主要的主题，讲解了如何用西班牙语询问和回答时间的问题。例如，当问'现在几点了？'时，我们用'Son las dos'来表示'现在两点'。时间在日常对话中非常重要，特别是在安排活动或询问事件发生的具体时刻。

💡Es la una

这是表达'现在一点'的西班牙语句型。视频解释了当时间是1点时，要使用阴性单数的'Una'而不是'Uno'，因为'小时'（la hora）是阴性名词。这是西班牙语时间表达中的一个特殊规则。

💡Son las

这是表示大多数整点时间的西班牙语句型，用于除1点以外的任何时间。例如，'Son las dos'表示'现在两点'。视频强调了这一表达法的普遍性以及它在不同时间中的使用。

💡Mediodía

表示'正午'的西班牙语单词，字面意思是'一天的中间'。在视频中，讲解了如何用'Es mediodía'来表示中午12点，这是一种常见的时间表达方式。

💡Medianoche

表示'午夜'的西班牙语单词。视频中解释了如何用'Es medianoche'来表示午夜12点。这一词汇和表达在描述一天中的时间节点时非常常见。

💡分钟

视频中讲解了如何在整点基础上加入分钟，比如'Son las dos y cinco'，表示'两点零五分'。此外，视频还提到使用'menos'表示时间差，比如'Son las ocho menos diez'表示'差10分9点'。

💡Cuarto

在西班牙语中，'Cuarto'可以表示15分钟，即一个小时的四分之一。在视频中，解释了它与'四'（Cuatro）的区别。例如，'Son las once y cuarto'表示'现在11点15分'。

💡Media

在表示半小时（30分钟）时使用的西班牙语单词。在视频中，讲解了'Es la una y media'（现在一点半）这样的表达。这个词语与'中间'的概念相关，在时间表达中常用。

💡Menos

表示'差多少分钟'的时间表达方式。例如，'Son las nueve menos diez'，表示'差10分9点'。视频详细讲解了如何使用这种表达法来描述接近整点的时间。

💡A qué hora

表示'在几点'的提问方式，用于询问事件发生的具体时间。视频中解释了如何用这个表达提问，比如'A qué hora es la clase?'（课几点开始？）。这一句型在日常生活中用于询问活动的时间。

Highlights

In Spanish, the word 'it' is implied when asking for the time, unlike in English.

For 1:00, use 'es la una' instead of 'es la uno' since 'hora' (hour) is feminine.

For any hour except 1:00, use 'son las' followed by the hour (e.g., 'son las dos' for 2:00).

No need to say 'o'clock' in Spanish, unlike in English.

For noon, use 'mediodía' and for midnight, use 'medianoche'.

To express times with minutes, use the structure 'son las [hour] y [minutes]', like 'son las dos y cinco' for 2:05.

To express 15 minutes, you can say 'cuarto' (quarter), e.g., 'son las once y cuarto' for 11:15.

To express 30 minutes, use 'media', as in 'son las dos y media' for 2:30.

To express times after 30 minutes, subtract from the next hour using 'menos', e.g., 'son las nueve menos diez' for 8:50.

Another example for subtracting time: 'son las ocho menos cinco' for 7:55.

When talking about events, use 'a' (at), such as 'a las tres' for 'at three o'clock'.

For events at 1:00, use 'a la una' instead of 'a las' since 'hora' is singular.

To specify a time of day, use 'la mañana' for morning, 'la tarde' for afternoon, and 'la noche' for evening.

When mentioning specific times with parts of the day, use 'de', e.g., 'a las ocho de la mañana' (at 8 in the morning).

Practice checking the clock throughout the day and stating the time in Spanish to master time-telling.

Transcripts

now first of all let's talk about how do

we ask hey what time is it well it's

this

what hour is now i want to point out

you might be saying where's the word it

all right okay because we say what time

is it in spanish it's really implied in

spanish it's not necessarily um it

doesn't really exist in that way in

spanish well now there's a way to say it

and we'll get to that in a later lesson

as a direct object but in this way you

just kind of have to understand it's

implied okay so what time is it

all right now we have two responses for

that

first of all

when we want to say it is

there's two different ways

we're going to start with this one

that's how we say it is but now the only

time it's different is if we're going to

say it is one and that would be this

es la

es la

here's the thing when it's one o'clock

or one anything i know we're thinking oh

okay so that's uno but we're not going

to say uno we're going to say una

because it's really describing the hour

and hours are feminine so we're going to

say una instead of uno okay so let's

just try a few of those really quick it

is one o'clock it looks like this es la

una

es la una

but any other hour we're going to use

son las so let's just try a couple

really quick

how would we say

it's two o'clock

son las dos

son las dos

and we don't have to say o'clock that's

an english thing so we can just say son

las dos

now i want you to think about this one

how would i say it is for it is four

o'clock

and what about it is seven o'clock

son la siete see it's really easy okay

let's just try a couple more really

quick now it is nine o'clock

all right it is ten o'clock

ds all right now what about this one it

is one o'clock

right we change it to es la una

all right great i think we know how to

say all the hours now

pretty easy let's talk about a couple of

specific times of the day first of all

noon and we're going to use the word

middle or

halfway

in the word day which is dia

so this word is used for noon el

that's noon the noon time

and this is midnight la

media noche

la media noche

it's midnight okay great now let's move

on um if we are stating

that it is

midnight we would say

es

media noche

es media noche so the last one was the

midnight or the noon now we're saying it

is midnight

and it is noon

12 o'clock straight up es mediodia es

mediodia all right

great now we're going to move into

minutes

okay how do we add those minutes in

well let's look at this one as an

example

uh it is 205

it is 205.

we're going to do it just like that it

is two

five but we're going to say the word and

remember we've talked about the word and

in spanish it's just simply the letter y

by itself and we pronounce it e like an

i

so we're going to say it is two and five

and it would look like this

son las dos e

cinco

okay let's let you try one on your own

think about it before i tell you the

answer

it is 4

20 it is 4 20.

okay so all we got to do is say it is we

know how to do that

good

now let's move into later part of the

hour it is 10

40 10 40.

okay

there you go

now i'm going to tell you another way to

do that in just a second

now let's write down a supplemental word

here 15 if it's 15 minutes after 15

minutes before

you might hear king se or you might hear

cuarto

and notice that looks a lot like four

doesn't it cuatro but we flip that r in

the t think of quartz quarter

a fourth of right

so cuarto is 15 or a quarter

so it looked like this if we were going

to say it is 11

15 we could say like say it like this

great

now we've almost covered the whole hour

except for that 30 mark 30 minutes after

the hour

the halfway point

we're not going to say 30 in spanish

we're actually going to use a different

word it's kind of like one we used a

while ago for uh noon and midnight we're

going to use media

media this time it's feminine because

again we're referring to the hour

so we're going to use this word media

now this is how we would say it's 130.

we would

all right push that tongue forward a

little bit and

work on those ends make it sound like a

native speaker okay now let's talk about

a different way to do time after that 30

minute mark

now think about this in english

we do this all the time

i'm going to use 850 this one here 850

as an example and we do this in english

we say what time is it and somebody says

well it's 8 50.

but what's another way we say it

it's 10 until 9 right it's 10 until 9.

so let's look at it that way now we're

going to do it basically the same way

and when we say it's 10 until 9. we're

just going to flip things around a

little bit we're actually going to refer

to the next

hour so we can say

we

but when we refer to the next hour the

other way we're going to use this word

menos

so we're going to go ahead and say

it is 9

minus 10.

instead of 10 till 9 it is 9 minus 10.

so just kind of reword that in your head

a little bit i promise you after you use

it a couple of times you're going to be

a natural at it all right

awesome let's try another one 755.

yep we would say it's 7 55 or it's five

till eight

we say it both ways in english and same

thing in spanish so let's do the first

way

um

la siete

is a mouthful isn't it the other way is

to go ahead and say it is eight minus

five so unless ocho

menos

ocho

menos cinco now i wanna try i wanna get

you to try one really quick think about

this it is

12.50

okay now i want you to try it the second

way using minus okay think about that it

is 1250

so reword it it is 1

minus

10.

but i know i can't trick you you're not

gonna say son last right because we're

gonna say one minus so we gotta say es

la una menos di

well now s can pretty much tell time any

time of the day now i want to encourage

you

look at your clock multiple times during

the day okay and look what time is it

and then i want you to try to say it in

spanish try to do that eight nine ten

times a day and you're just going to be

a natural before you know it

now let's modify just a little bit just

a little bit

now if somebody says hey what time is

the game

or

what time do you want me to be there

we're not going to say it's three

o'clock

because that's not really what we're

saying we're not telling you it's that

time now we're saying

at what time it happens

so all we have to do is use the word at

in spanish and you know the word at is

ah the letter a by itself

i means at or it can mean to you're

going to somewhere

all we have to do friends is change

ah just change the song

and this is what we get look at this

example

what time is the class let's do that in

spanish

at what time is the class

at ten o'clock it's going to look just

like this change that song to i and we

get this

a las vegas

at ten o'clock

now what did you notice about this type

and the other type of stating what time

it is the word last is always there

right so we're always we go ahead and

put that in your mind we're always going

to use the word lies

when we're stating a time

the difference is saying son las or alas

it is that time or at that time all

right so that's our common factor here

now

what time is the meeting

think about what that would be

that's at one o'clock there you go so

we're using la instead

now i want to

sort of start wrapping up today's lesson

by telling you how to state the time of

the day that something happens is it

happening in the morning

or in the afternoon

or at night all right so we're gonna say

the word for morning afternoon and night

like this

la

manana is the morning

you might be saying i thought that was

tomorrow see you tomorrow like hasta

manana it is it also means the morning

we have words like that in english don't

we you can use them different ways and

different meanings so la manana is how

we say the morning then the afternoon

after lunch we're going to say la

tarde

and then at night in the evening we're

going to say la noche

la noche

so let's put all this together a que

hora llegas

there's one of those ar verbs yegar to

arrive

at

eight o'clock

in the morning

now obviously we know at eight o'clock

is a las ocho

but i need to tell you a little grammar

rule here

when we have that time in spanish

like at eight o'clock

for example we don't say in the morning

in la manana

i have a rule i teach and i want you to

think de is definite definite is de

when you have a definite time we use de

of okay

so this would be your our answer alas

okay

now let's just do a few more examples

how would we say at two o'clock

in the afternoon

at two o'clock in the afternoon

since we have that definite time we're

going to use day day is definite

let's do one more in the evening at nine

o'clock in the evening all right nine

o'clock at nine o'clock at night

okay friends

i think that you are ready to start

talking about times and times that

things happen

start having conversation use these as

much as you can look at that clock all

day long and state what time is it in

the morning in the afternoon at night

just put it all together i know you're

going to be able to master it before you

know it