Answer:
1. In Spanish when the minutes on the clock are between 31 and 59, we can use this expression menos. Write some examples.
Son las diez menos veinte
Es la una menos cuarto
Son las cinco menos diez
Use the expression A qué hora? to ask about a specific time of an activity or an event. What preposition will you have in the question and answer when asking about a specific time of an event or activity? What does it mean in English? Write some examples of asking and telling time.
We use the preposition "a". In this context it can be translated to "at". The question would be "at what time...?".
Examples:
A qué hora es el partido de fútbol? A las cinco de la tarde
A qué hora llega el vuelo de Nueva York? A las once de la noche
A qué hora te levantas por las mañanas? A las seis y media de la mañana
Explanation:
1. We can use the expression menos (minus) to say how many minutes are left until the next hour. The formula is "es la una/ son las... + menos + number of minutes".
Es la una menos cinco (It's five til one)
Son las 3 menos cuarto (It's a quarter to three)
2. To ask for the specific time of something in spanish we use the expression "A qué hora...?" which translates to "at what time...?"
The reposition used her is "a", which is a very common preposition in Spanish and one of its used is to express time.
Examples:
1. A qué hora es el partido de fútbol? (At what time is the soccer match?)
A las cinco de la tarde (It´s at five in the afternoon)
2. A qué hora llega el vuelo de Nueva York? (At what time does the flight from New York arrive?)
A las once de la noche (At eleven at night)
3. A qué hora te levantas por las mañanas? (At what time do you wake up in the mornings?)
A las seis y media de la mañana (At six thirty in the morning)
