Italian Course Beginner Series 41 Telling The Time Video Lecture - Learn

hello guys and welcome to conversational
Italian telling the time now today we're
gonna learn how to tell the time in
Italian and we're gonna learn a bunch of
very useful phrases of everyday
conversation that will be very useful to
you okay so we don't care too much about
drama in this subset of video lessons
but we always try to understand what we
are saying okay let's begin with the
very first sentence the first sentence
means it's late
okay so at this word here the letter e
followed by an acute accent means it is
and tardy means light it's light okay
KRS so what time is it what time is it
okay or it so no now order means hours
so literally it's hours literally it can
be translated into what hours are they
now but that doesn't make too much sense
so this is how people say what time is
it the reply to that could be sono le
tre and Meza this means it's 3:00 well
Harper 3:00 3:30 okay we have done
numbers so we know that this means three
it Metsa means and half
okay the particle it is a connector and
all he does it's basically what you
would use in English as in English you
would say and so literally it's
three and half so 3:30 or do a minnow
quarter now a number like to do it means
to followed by Meno and quarter means
quarter two so the translation of do a
mean on water is quoted - okay
tre mean on quarter this would be equal
to 3 so 245 Quattro in Punto now in
Punto is not very common but I put it
here just to make sure that we know like
if you hear it you know what it means it
means o'clock it means exactly on the
dot Quattro means for so sono le Quattro
means it's 4 o'clock sono le Quattro in
Punto it means it's exactly for now
let's learn some other very useful
sentences and phrases now so know in
retardo this means I'm light so know in
unteachable this means I am early so if
somebody comes up to you in Italy and
asks curator Sona you know that that
person wants to know the time so you can
say I don't know so no lair the way and
matza or that I mean on quarter
depending on what time it is at that
moment or you can cheat and be smart and
tell the wrong time that's always cool
or maybe there's a person coming up to
you and he's trying to talk to you sell
you stuff you can always say so no a
retard Oh scusi
it means sorry I'm late you I don't have
time for your crap so but more polite
than that scusi means excuse me
or sorry so it's a very very useful tool
for you to go with no no Laura larger
this means I don't have a watch so if
somebody asks for the time you don't
know the time
you can always make it up or you can be
honest and say no not little larger
scusi
it means I'm sorry I don't have a watch
with me okay
so what's left we've seen this we've
seen that
quanto tempo piano now this means how
much time how we go
tempo means time quanto means how much a
piano we have seen the verb to have so
we know what this means this means we
have how much time we have literally but
because in Italian you don't do anything
when you make a question you just change
the intonation
if you're writing then you put a
question mark so this means what time do
I'm sorry how much time do we have
so how much time are we got left this is
what it means
quanto tempo piano okay Cherica yes sir
a punt wala try to be punctual we've
also seen the verb to be
si and this is its infinitive form si to
be try to be Punto this means
punctual this means try a Kia Ora sir I
pronto now this is the very last
sentence that we're gonna see today and
the reason why I left it as last it's
because it's not so common but anyway
it's very useful so I Kara's that I
pronto means what time will you be ready
this is what it means this is the verb
to be in its future tense so we don't
know very well what this why this is but
we were gonna have a look at the future
tense later on in the course but anyway
we know that aura means hour and because
it's feminine we expect e to be it's
plural form in fact you get order all
that means hours and this is our okay
one hour so what our literally what
our will you be ready pronto obviously
you're talking to a girl or you're
talking to a woman because you have da
at the end if you change the adjective
and you basically write it down or you
pronounce it in its masculine form with
an O at the end then it becomes I cured
us that I prune door this means that
you're asking the question to a guy to a
man what time will you be ready but this
time for four men because it's in its
masculine form the way it's written here
it's in its feminine form okay guys so
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next video and practice take care see
you soon