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On this hours from now time calculator, you can calculate time from the number of hours and minutes from now. Enter hours, minutes and select the time later from now or before from now (ago), the calculated time will be displayed on the below of calculator. If hours from now result is bigger than a day, number of days will be shown.
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| 1 Hours | 20:23:04 | Sun 14th Aug 2022 |
| 2 Hours | 21:23:04 | Sun 14th Aug 2022 |
| 3 Hours | 22:23:04 | Sun 14th Aug 2022 |
| 4 Hours | 23:23:04 | Sun 14th Aug 2022 |
| 5 Hours | 00:23:04 | Mon 15th Aug 2022 |
| 6 Hours | 01:23:04 | Mon 15th Aug 2022 |
| 7 Hours | 02:23:04 | Mon 15th Aug 2022 |
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| 49 Hours | 20:23:04 | Tue 16th Aug 2022 |
| 50 Hours | 21:23:04 | Tue 16th Aug 2022 |
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How much time vs how many times [closed]
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would some one tell me when we use ” how much time ” and when we use ” how many times ” Thank you in advance.
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The general difference between “how much” and “how many” is that the latter is used for discrete defined amounts, while the former is used for non-discrete undefined quantities. For example:
How much food did you eat?
“Apples” can be separated can be separated into individual apples, so there can be 10 apples. There is no discrete entity food can be divided into such that there can be 10 food.
In the case of “time”, the word has a different meaning depending on whether it has an “s” or not. Without an “s” it refers to a period of existence. There is no discrete unit called “time” that you can have, e.g.,10 of. Therefore, you would have to say “how much time”.
The word “times”, however, means occurrences. Since it can be broken down into component parts, e.g., “10 times” which are each a time, you would have to say “how many times”.
Note that even a non-discrete unit such as “time” can easily be converted into a discrete unit such as hours. So you would say “how much time” but “how many hours”.
A useful way to know which phrase to use without having to think too deeply about it is to just follow the singularity/plurality. If a word is plural (like “times”) then it can by definition be broken down into the individual parts, and “how many” is appropriate. If the word is singular (like time) then it probably can’t be broken down any further without changing the word, and therefore “how much” would be appropriate.
Got the Time? It’s Time to Learn How to Tell Time in English!
Everyone studies numbers when they first start learning a new language.
However, talking about time involves more than the numbers on the clock.
Being able to ask questions and talk about time is fundamental to speaking any language, and that’s also true if you’re a beginner learning English.
So instead of simply saying the numbers that you see on the clock, you can sound like a native by using the same phrases and terms that most English speakers do.
The words and phrases in this article can be used around your hometown or when you are traveling, and they can even be part of your daily journals for English practice.
Using this post, you will learn every English word and phrase you need to tell time like a natural!
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What Time Is It? 9 Important Lessons About How to Tell Time in English
1. Learn to Talk About the Time of Day
Numbers may tell you the exact time. However, many people will talk about the general time of day instead of being specific. Here are words that you may hear and use when the exact time is not very important.
Noon means 12:00 p.m., at the very beginning of the afternoon.
“What time are we meeting this weekend?”
“Around noon, so we can sleep in.”
Midday
This sometimes means the same thing as noon, because noon is in the middle of the day. Midday can also be any time between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
This is basically when people begin and finish eating lunch (meaning the middle of the day).
“It is supposed to be very hot and sunny today at midday.”
Afternoon
Because this phrase means “after noon passes” it is really versatile. This can be any time between noon (12:00 p.m.) and before the sun sets (usually around 6:00 p.m.). If you do not live on the equator, the time of the sunset is always changing with the seasons. Sunset might be at 4:00 p.m. in the winter and 9:00 p.m. in the summer. This means that “afternoon” can be shorter or longer depending on the season.
“I’m busy all afternoon so let’s have dinner together tonight.”
Midnight
Midnight means the middle of the night. However, now many people use it to mean 12:00 in the morning (12:00 a.m.), when the next day begins.
The phrase midnight hours refers to any time between 12:00 a.m. and 3:00 in the morning (3:00 a.m.).
“People kiss on New Years Eve at midnight.”
Twilight
“Twilight” may just be a popular book and movie series to some people, however twilight is actually the time when the sun is barely (very slightly or very little) lighting up the sky. This is usually right before the sun rises or right after the sun sets. The best way to remember this time is that it is in-between when one day is ending and when the new day is starting, and the sky has a blue or purple tint (slight color).
“I love the way that the trees look at twilight.”
Sunset and Sunrise
When the sun is setting (going down) or rising (going up) you can call these times sunset and sunrise. Sunset is right before twilight, when the sky starts to turn pink and orange but is not dark yet. Sunrise happens when the sun starts to come up in the morning (after morning twilight happens) and has the same orange and pink colors as sunset.
“Let’s climb the mountain before sunrise so we can watch the sun come up.”
“I would rather leave in the afternoon and watch the sunset.”
After Dark
The time of day that is after dark is usually between 9:00 at night and 1:00 in the morning, or even later. It can also be a phrase for when nightlife starts in a city, and people go out to drink or dance when the sun has set completely. A good way to remember this time is that if most people are asleep or going to sleep soon, it is after dark.
“Have you ever been to LA after dark?”
“No, but I heard that it gets crazy.”
The Crack of Dawn
The actual time for the crack of dawn is when you first start seeing light in the sky, but the sun is not visible yet. People often use this term for waking up before the sun, or just very early, around 4:00 and 6:00 in the morning.
“If we want to beat the traffic tomorrow we will need to wake up at the crack of dawn.”
2. Say the Hours
When you tell the time in English, the hours always come first. If you look at the clock and see that it is 3:00 p.m., then you can say “It is three” or “The time is three o’clock.” It is that simple!
Remember that when you are talking about just the hour, and no minutes, then you will often use “o’clock.”
3. Use O’clock
O’clock is shortened from an old phrase meaning of the clock, and is something that you can say after you tell what hour it is. However, you only use this when telling the hour. If you need to include minutes, then you cannot say o’clock.
“Sir, do you know what time it is now?”
“It is twelve o’clock in the afternoon.”
Here is how this works for every hour on the clock:
1:00 — One o’clock
2:00 — Two o’clock
3:00 — Three o’clock
4:00 — Four o’clock
5:00 — Five o’clock
6:00 — Six o’clock
7:00 — Seven o’clock
8:00 — Eight o’clock
9:00 — Nine o’clock
10:00 — Ten o’clock
11:00 — Eleven o’clock
12:00 — Twelve o’clock
4. Know About Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night
There are only twelve hours written on a clock in any part of the English-speaking world. This may be true in the region where you live too. This is a very common system for telling time. However, that means it will be 6:00 twice every day, once in the morning and once in the nighttime! So, how do you talk about 6:00 in the morning and 6:00 at night?
Quite simply, you can say exactly what time of day you are talking about. For example:
Morning (from 12:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)
1:00 a.m. — It is one in the morning.
6:00 a.m. — It is six in the morning.
11:00 a.m. — It is eleven in the morning.
Afternoon (from 12:00 p.m. to sunset)
1:00 p.m. — It is one in the afternoon.
3:00 p.m. — It is three in the afternoon.
4:00 p.m. — It is four in the afternoon.
Evening (from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.)
6:00 p.m. — It is six in the evening.
8:00 p.m. — It is eight in the evening.
Night (from 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.)
5. Use a.m. and p.m.
When you say something is at six o’clock you should let the person know if you mean a.m. (morning) or p.m. (night). These words are abbreviations for the Latin terms “ante meridiem” and “post meridiem,” which mean before midday and after midday.
“I think I overslept, what time is it now?”
“It’s 12:30.”
“12:30 a.m. or p.m.?”
“12:30 p.m.“
6. Talking About Minutes
When you are telling the exact time in minutes, the way that you pronounce the time can be different. For example, when saying 3:05, 3:06, etc. you would pronounce it as “three oh five” or “three oh six,” similar to saying “o’clock.” This is because sometimes we call zero (0) “oh” in English, and saying “oh five” is faster and easier than saying “zero five.”
All other minutes from 10 to 59 are pronounced normally (“ten” and “fifty-nine”). However there are many other ways to talk about minutes other than saying the exact number.
Half an Hour
Since an hour is 60 minutes, half of an hour is 30 minutes. It does not have to be exactly 00:30 for you to use the term half an hour, you can use it for times between 25 and 35 minutes.
“How much longer until 6?”
“About half an hour.”
Quarter of an Hour
Since half an hour is thirty minutes, a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. You can use the term quarter along with past and until when telling the time. For example, 7:45 is “a quarter till eight“ and 8:15 is “a quarter past/after eight.” We will talk more about these words, past and until, later in this article, so keep reading!
You can still say “quarter” if the number of minutes you have is between 12 and 17.
“How much longer until 6?”
“About a quarter of an hour“
“What time is it right now?”
“A quarter until nine.”
7. Use Military Time
If you do not want to use a.m. or p.m., you may want to go by what Americans call military time.
With this method of counting the hours in the day you start with 00:00 at midnight (12:00 a.m.) and count up from there until 23:59 for 11:59 p.m.
People will also pronounce this differently, so instead of saying “twenty three and zero minutes” for 23:00, you would say “twenty three o’hundred.”
“You need to report to the office at fifteen hundred hours today. After that you can leave at seventeen o’fifty.”
8. Use Classic Phrases from History
When the Clock Tolls/When the Bell Chimes
These are both older terms for telling time, because they are based off of large clock towers, such as Big Ben in England.
Both a toll and a chime mean to ring a bell. In churches and town centers (and sometimes in clocks found in houses) the bell would chime every new hour. So, there are times that you can say you will do something at the start of the next hour using these phrases. You will probably hear this more often in older films and books, and sometimes as a joke.
“I’ll see you after the clock tolls one.”
9. Be More General
Maybe you do not want to use a very exact time, like 7:56. However, you also do not want to be too general by saying “evening” (between 5:00 and 8:00 at night). You can use the terms below to quickly tell around what time it is, without the need to be exact.
Past and Till
You can use these along with any combination of words about time. Which one you use depends if you are counting forwards or backwards.
6:30 can either be half past 6 or it can be thirty minutes till 7. (Till is the more casual way of saying until, you can use either depending on the situation.)
10:30 p.m. — Half past ten. / Thirty minutes till 11.
11:30 a.m. — Half past eleven. / Thirty minutes to 12.
Couple and Few
A couple of anything generally means two of something. If you say that you have a couple minutes it means about two or three minutes. A few usually means three to five of something, so a few minutes is a little bit longer than a couple, however they are usually used in the same way.
Both can tell people that there is only a short amount of time left before something, or can make the time of day less specific. You can use couple and few with minutes or hours.
“How long until we leave?”
“A few minutes.”
“What time is it now?”
“A couple minutes past five.”
Five, Ten or Twenty
When telling the general time people usually count in either fives, tens or twenties. For example, it is much more common to hear a person say “five past eight” than to hear “four past eight.” If a person wants the exact time you can tell them, but a good rule is to count in groups of five since minutes are very short anyways.
“Do you know what time it is now?”
“About ten minutes past midnight.”
“And when do the trains stop running?”
“At twenty after twelve.”
Now you know all the different ways to answer the question “what time is it?” with ease.
It takes practice, but you will be able to say all of these vocabulary words naturally in no time!
Christine McGahhey is an American writer currently living in South Korea who has volunteered for several years to teach students and adults English.
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What Time Is It? How to tell time + words for time
With any language you’re starting out with, it’s important to learn how to tell time, especially if the country you’re in uses a different time-telling system from the one you’re used to. This article will teach you how to tell time in English using the 12-hour system, as well as common greetings or sayings that correspond with different times of day!
What’s not common is to say something like TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES, TWO AND FORTY, or FORTY AND TWO.
Telling The Time Game
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If the time is exactly on the hour, simply say the number of the hour, followed by the phrase O’CLOCK. (pronounced OH CLOCK). Here are all the possibilities:
However, you don’t have to use the phrase O’CLOCK. You can simply say the number of the hour by itself. For example, you could say that it’s TEN O’CLOCK, or just say that it’s TEN.
In most languages, there are shorthand ways of saying certain amounts of minutes, such as fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, or forty minutes. English has these as well, though you don’t always have to use them.
I personally always stick to the “hour minute” formula because it’s easier and simpler. Regardless, here are the shorthand phrases you’ll always hear, and you can choose whether or not you want to use them.
HALF PAST + hour
A QUARTER PAST + hour
A QUARTER TO/TILL + hour
Note that this form is only really used with multiples of five. Otherwise, the subtraction gets too inconvenient to do in your head!
One inconvenient aspect of the 12-hour system is having to distinguish morning from evening, or night from afternoon. The most systematic way of doing this is using the terms A.M. and P.M., which stand for the Latin phrases ANTE MERIDIEM (before midday) and POST MERIDIEM (after midday) respectively.
What are words for time? Why do we use them? When can we use them in a sentence? And how do we use them?
This is what we are going to look at together today. When we use time expressions in a sentence, it adds new information to the sentence.
This new information shows us when or for how long something takes place. By definition, we use time expressions to show when a certain action occurred or to indicate the duration of the action.
For example, I went to the cinema yesterday, the movie was two and a half hours long. This sentence tells us when you went to the cinema (yesterday) and the duration of the movie (two and a half hours long).
Let’s take a look at different types of time expressions, I have categorised the expressions into various groups which include basic time expressions but also more complex expressions.
Expression which indicate the day:
Expression which indicate the week, the month or the year:
Expressions which indicate the parts of the day:
Expressions which indicate the period or duration of time:
Time expressions when asking a question:
Helpful expressions when you want to request the time in English:
1. What time is it?
2. What’s the time?
3. Do you have the time?
4. Do you know what time it is?
5. What time does the concert start?
6. What time does the movie end?
And expressions to help you respond to the questions above:
Time Expressions and Verb Tenses:
When using time expressions we must be careful with which tense we use; the past, the present or the future tense, as expressions of time indicate an aspect of time which must be reflected in the tense used in the entire phrase.
If we take the phrase last night as an example, the time expression is referring to yesterday night, a time in the past and late in the day. As it is referring to the past, we cannot use the present continuous tense or the future simple tense on this sentence, for example.
Let’s see what other time expressions we can use with the past tenses:
Time Expressions and Present Tenses:
What time expressions can we use with the present tenses? Remember we can use the present tense for many different situations such as newspaper headlines, when we talk about our daily or weekly routine, when we are quoting someone, when we are giving instruction and sometimes even when we talk about the future.
Let’s see what time expressions we can use with the present tenses:
The time expressions just, ever, never, already and yet are usually used with the present perfect tense too. Take a look below at the examples of the present simple tense with these time expressions.
Time Expressions and Future Tenses:
Here is a list of time expressions you can use when talking about the future and using a
future tense:
Time Expressions and Adverbs:
General adverbs of time:
Adverbs of time that tell us when an action occurred:
Adverbs of time which tells us for how long the action occurred:
Where are these adverbs positioned in a sentence? They are usually placed at the end of the sentence but can be positioned at the beginning of the sentence also.
Adverbs of Frequency tell us how often an action occurs:
Where are these adverbs positioned in a sentence? Adverbs of frequency are usually placed before the main verb.
As you can see from the examples above, time expressions effects the entire phrase or sentence. We must make sure to keep the time expression in mind when choosing which tense we are going to use.
Choosing the correct tense for a phrase is extremely important and allows languages learners to show off their new language, if you choose the wrong tense it confuses the entire sentence and the person you are talking to!
Do you see how the tense and time expression contradict each other in the incorrect sentences? Whereas the corrected sentences are coherent and clear. Always look out for the time expression in a phrase or sentence as it can act as a clue to which tense is being used.
Time Expressions with Direct and Indirect Speech:
Another area we must be careful with when choosing time expressions is when we are using indirect speech or reported speech. Indirect speech is used when we want to report what was said by someone in the past.
Do you see how the tense changes when using the indirect or reported speech? I have gone into further detail about the differences between direct and indirect speech in a previous article. If you are unfamiliar with this topic why not check it out?
Not only does the tense change but the time expression may also changes; tonight becomes that night in the second example. When using the indirect speech you have to remember you are talking about something that happened in the past so naturally any expressions referring to time may need to be adjusted.
And that’s everything you need to know about time expressions! I have provided you with various categories of time expressions, along with when and how to use them.
Don’t forget that the choice of time expression is a big determiner of which verb tense to use. Also be careful where you position the time expression in a phrase, remember auxiliary verbs may affect where you place the expression in the phrase.
Now I want you to practice using these new time expressions in the exercises below.
Best of luck!
today yesterday, that day, Friday, the 7th of December
tomorrow today, the next/following day, Monday
yesterday the previous day, Thursday
last week/month/year the previous week/month/year
next week/month/year next week/month/year
now/just then
ago before
Time Expression Exercises:
Ex. 1: Write questions for each sentences below:
1. _____________________________________________________________________
The match starts at 3 P.M.
2. ______________________________________________________________________
It is 11 in the morning.
3. ______________________________________________________________________
The concert is three hours long.
4. ______________________________________________________________________
I go to the dentist twice a year.
5. ______________________________________________________________________
He never goes to class.
Ex. 2: Complete the sentences with the expressions provided:
nowadays last night always two weeks ago how long starts in how often tomorrow
1. I ______________ go to the lectures.
2. The semester ______________ September and ends in December.
3. ______________, people tend to eat a lot of healthier food.
4. ______________ did you go to Turkey for?
5. ______________ do you visit your family in America?
6. I will finish the report ______________.
7. He was so nervous about the wedding, he couldn’t sleep at all ______________.
8. The birthday party was ______________.
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