Asking/telling Time

If you want to ask the time in Spanish, you can say ¿Qué hora es? There are also a few others ways you can ask, too. There are represented on the table below. You can tell someone the time by saying, es la una for it’s one o’clock or son las # (in Spanish).
¿Qué hora son?----\
What time is it?
¿Qué hora tiene?--/
Es la una.-It’s one o’clock
Son las dos, tres cuatro,…-It’s two, three, four o’clock…
…y (number of minutes after the hour)-
…y cuarto- :15
…y media- :30
…menos cuarto- :45
…menos (number of minutes before the hour) -minus (number of minutes before the hour.
When using “menos (number of minutes before the hour)” be sure to always use the next hour and not the one you are currently in.
Ex. Its 10:50 you would say Son las once menos diez (It’s 11 o’clock minus ten minutes.)

Two- dos Fifteen- quince
Three- tres Sixteen- dieciseis
Four- cuatro Seventeen- diecisiete
Five- cinco Eighteen- dieciocho
Six- seis Nineteen- diecinueve
Seven- siete Twenty-veinte /twenty-# veinti(number in Spanish)
Eight- ocho Thirty- treinte /thrity# treinte y (number in Spanish)
Nine- nueve Forty-cuarenta/Forty-# cuarenta y (number in Spanish)
Ten- diez Fifty-cincuenta/fifty-# cincuenta y (number in Spanish)
Eleven- once
Twelve- doce
Thirteen- trece
Fourteen- catorce
You would need to know the numbers in Spanish in order to tell time. There shown on the chart!