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31 lip 2020 · Understanding the limits of language flexibility will help you feel more comfortable using the Russian language for telling time in Russian. In this article, we’ll also explore Russian hours and minutes, and learn how to ask the time in Russian.
13 gru 2019 · Learn how to tell time in Russian, including how to say time on the hour, how to tell exact time, and how to say o'clock. Pronunciation and examples.
We can say that in Russian there are two ways of telling the time. Here we'll learn the easy one where, for example, for 8:15 we say "It's eight fifteen". In the difficult way (that we won't learn) we would say: "it's fifteen minutes of the ninth hour".
Telling time in Russian: hours. Read the examples below. Some of them include two possible ways of telling time: one is by the 12-hours system, and the second one is by the 24-hours system. Practice them with the audio file.
Here’s the simple formula for telling time in Russian: if it’s an exact hour (such as 2 o’clock), simply use a number from 1 to 12 and add the Russian word for “hours.” In other words, the translation for “it’s 2 o’clock” is, literally, “2 hours.” The singular Russian word for “hour” is час (pronounced chas).
28 lip 2015 · Do you know your Russian numbers (I wrote an article on counting 1-100)? If so, you can easily tell the time in Russian. The good news is, it’s almost just like English. You can say it in the (hour – minute) format like “ two thirty ” or “ nine fifty-five. Step 1. Let’s cover the hours first.
28 sie 2020 · In Russian, “What time is it?” literally translates to “Which hour is it?” What time is it? — Который час? A more casual version of this phrase is “Сколько времени?” To answer with a time that’s rounded to the hour, you would say the number + час/часа/часов — час for 1 o’clock, часа for 2 through 4 o’clock, and часов for 5 through 12 o’clock.
