⏰ Spanish: My Day and the Time

Today we learn to tell the time in Spanish and to talk about our day. To ask the time, say: ¿Qué hora es? (What time is it?)

O’clock times: for one o’clock we say Es la una (singular), for the others Son las dos, Son las tres (plural). En punto means o’clock.

Half past is y media (and half), quarter past is y cuarto (and a quarter). For quarter to we say menos cuarto (minus a quarter) and use the next hour: 7:45 is las ocho menos cuarto, like “quarter to eight”.

To ask the time: ¿Qué hora es? To ask when something happens: ¿A qué hora ...? (At what time ...?) The answer uses a las (a la una for one): Me despierto a las siete. (I wake up at seven.)

Morning: Me despierto a las siete. (I wake up.) Desayuno a las siete y media. (I have breakfast.) Voy al colegio a las ocho y cuarto. (I go to school.)

Afternoon: Como a las dos. (I eat lunch.) Hago los deberes a las cinco. (I do my homework.) For the afternoon we say de la tarde.

Night: Me acuesto a las diez. (I go to bed.) The verbs me despierto, me levanto, me acuesto all have me: it means “myself”, so we do the action to ourselves. For the night we say de la noche.

The days of the week: lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo. Careful: in Spanish the days start with a small letter, not a capital like in English. Weekdays are school days, and the weekend is fin de semana.

Los domingos duermo hasta las diez. On Sundays I sleep until ten. Los domingos means “on Sundays”, and hasta means “until”.

Let’s remember: for the time, Son las ... y cuarto / y media / menos cuarto; for when something happens, a las .... You have the daily verbs and the days of the week. Now try it in Mi Día!