LOrario

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LOrario

• Telling Time in Italian

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Telling Time

• In Italian there are two ways of asking the time
• Che ora è?
• or
• Che ore sono?
• They both have the same meaning although it is
  more common to use the second form.

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Telling Time

• When answering the question, there are two forms
  used è and sono. These are not interchangeable.
• One uses è is used with the following times
• Noon È mezzogiorno.
• Midnight È mezzanotte.
• One oclock È luna.
• É is used with 100 only until 130.

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Telling Time

• When expressing time in Italian, the definite
  article le is always used in front of the hour.
  
• It is used because the Italian word for hour,
  lora, is feminine and when expressing plural
  hours, it becomes le ore.

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Telling Time

• When expressing time that is not on the dot of
  an hour, we use the word e between the hour and
  minutes
• Sono le due e dieci. 210
• Sono le sette e venti. 720
• Sono le undici e tredici. 1113

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Telling Time

• Halves and Quarters
• In English, there are two ways to express half
  past an hour. We can say for example that it is
  three thirty or we can say it is half past three.
  
• In Italian, it is the same. One may say
• Sono le tre e trenta.
• or
• Sono le tre e mezzo.

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Telling Time

• When expressing either quarter past or quarter of
  an hour, it can be expressed just as in English
  as well.
• 415
• Sono le quattro e quindici.
• Sono le quattro e un quarto.
• 5 45
• Sono le cinque e quarantacinque.
• Sono le cinque e tre quarti.

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Telling Time

• Time of Day
• In Europe AM and PM are used in general telling
  of time.
• However, when reading time tables for airplanes,
  trains, museums, and other schedules, they are
  still printed using the 24 hour clock.

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Telling Time

• In conversation, however, time of day is
  expressed as seen below
• A.M.
• di (della) mattina in the morning
• P.M.
• di (del) pomeriggio in the afternoon
• di (della) sera in the evening
• di (della) notte at night