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Reading the clock and telling the time of the day.This entire lesson mainly deals with talking about the time, important dates and your daily schedule. Thus it will prove especially useful to you since those are things that you always need.On this page, we will teach you, how to tell someone the time in German and how to ask someone for the time. To ask someone for the time in German, use one of the following questions:
Now, how do we answer this question if we are asked by someone? Look at the following pictures of clocks and the German phrases below them. Then try to understand, why we say each phrase to tell a certain time. Thereby, it might be helpful to know the exact meaning of the following words:
Click on the blue arrows to hear the words in German.
Some explanations might be necessary here: - In German, when the hour is half, for example: "it is half past 10" (10:30), we say "Es ist halb elf" (half eleven). - We say "Es ist ein Uhr" and NOT "Es ist eins Uhr" (wrong!) - But, we would say "Es ist viertel vor eins." (12:45) or "Es ist halb eins." (12:30). - We also use the complicated expressions of "fünf vor halb" and "fünf nach halb" in order to express the minutes 25 and 35 of the hour. Press the green next-button to proceed to the next page of this lesson. next page  pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 vocabularies Exercises [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] |
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