LangolingTime expressions
Learning Italian can be particularly beneficial for individuals seeking to enhance their communication skills across a wide range of contexts. Whether you're planning a visit to Italy or simply wish to improve your ability to express time-related concepts in a new language, Italian offers a rich and nuanced vocabulary that will help you speak more precisely about time and intervals.
From mastering the exact terminology for past, present, and future tenses to understanding the variety of expressions used for hours, minutes, and seconds, Italian provides a comprehensive system for discussing temporal relationships. Whether it's necessary to express when something occurred or will occur, or to convey the duration of an event, Italian’s extensive lexicon ensures that you can articulate time with precision and ease.
What time is it?
Quale ora è?
It's quarter to three.
Le quattro e quaranta.
The hour hand will point at nine soon.
L'orologio segretterà presto su nove.
It's just before noon.
È appena prima dell'noon.
It's twenty-five minutes past five.
Le venti e cinque di lì a poco sono le cinque.
Half past four, and the minute hand is on six.
Le quattro e mezzo, e la lancetta dei minimi è su sei.
It's a little after ten o'clock.
Sono un po' dopo le dieci.
Quarter till seven in the evening.
Mezzogiorno meno un quarto.
It's nearly midnight.
Le ore sono quasi mezzanotte.
The time is exactly one.
L'ora è esattamente una.
It's about eight-thirty.
Le ore sono circa le otto e trentasette.
It's just before two o'clock.
Le ore sono appena le due.
Half past noon, and the minute hand is on twelve.
Mezza pomeriggio e la lancetta delle minuti è su dodici.
It's almost nine thirty-five.
Sono quasi le nove e trentacinque.
Quarter to one in the afternoon.
Mezzo meno una in pomeridiana.
It's a quarter to six in the morning.
Sono le quattro e quarantaquattré di sera.
The time is around four fifteen.
L'ora è intorno alle quattro e mezzo.
It's about eight twenty.
Le ore sono circa venti e otto.
It's just after three-thirty.
Sono appena le tre e trentacinque.
Half past five, and the minute hand is on ten.
Mezza manina e dieci.