Quick answer
Son las tres y media.
It is half past three. Spanish counts y minutes past and menos minutes to, and uses son las for every hour except one.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| la hora | the hour |
| el minuto | the minute |
| el reloj | the clock |
| la mañana | the morning |
| la tarde | the afternoon |
| la noche | the night |
| el mediodía | midday |
| la medianoche | midnight |
| el día | the day |
| la semana | the week |
| el mes | the month |
| el año | the year |
| el fin de semana | the weekend |
| el cumpleaños | the birthday |
| el horario | the opening hours |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
The Spanish day is divided differently, not just spoken differently. La tarde stretches from lunch until roughly nine in the evening, so las ocho de la tarde is normal and "good evening" as a greeting at seven is still buenas tardes. Lunch is around two or three and dinner rarely before nine, which is why an invitation a las nueve means dinner, not a late snack. Dates are written day first, so 7/9 is the seventh of September, and you say el 7 de septiembre with a cardinal number — el uno de mayo, never el primero in Spain, though Latin America does say el primero. Months and weekdays are written in lower case.
Practice
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What time is "las ocho de la tarde"?