how to tell the date/ time

Question 1

‘What is the date (today)?’

Answer 1

¿Cual es la fecha?

Question 2

When talking about dates in Spanish use:

Answer 2

(number) de (month) e.g. siete de Julio

Question 3

‘What day is it today?’

Answer 3

¿Qué día es hoy?

Question 4

‘What time is is?’

Answer 4

¿Qué hora es?

Question 5

Telling the time:

Answer 5

For 1 o’clock: ‘es la una’
For any other hour: ‘son las (number)’

Question 6

Expressing minutes below half an hour

Answer 6

= (hour) y (minutes) e.g. son las dos y dies (its 2:10)

Question 7

Express minutes after half an hour

Answer 7

(next hour) menos (minutes until next hour) e.g. son las nueve menos diez (its 8:50)

Question 8

What to use for quarter hour

Answer 8

= cuatro e.g. son las seis y cuatro (it’s 6:15)

Question 9

What to use for half hour

Answer 9

= media e.g. son las cinco y media (its 5:30)

Question 10

To express at what time of the day …

Answer 10

= use preposition ‘a’ e.g. ¿A qué hora es la class de español?

Question 11

Expressing that an event goes from a specific time frame:

Answer 11

= de las … a las e.g. Trabajo de las 2:00 a las 5:00 de la tarde (I work from 2 to 5 in the afternoon)