TALKING ABOUT TIME (membicarakan waktu)
What time is it?
(Wot taim isit)
Jam berapa ini?
What’s the time?
(Wots dhe taim)
Jam Berapa ini?
Could you tell me the time?
(Kudyu telmi dhe taim)
Bisakah memberitahukan jam berapa ini?
Do you know what time it is?
(Du yu nou wot taim it is)
Apa kamu tahu ini jam berapa?
How long have you been waiting?
(Hau longev yu bin weiting)
Sudah berapa lama kamu menunggu?
Do you have free time this afternoon?
(Du yu hev fri taim dhis aftenun)
Apa kamu punya waktu luang siang ini?
What time can we meet?
(Wottaim ken wi mit)
Jam berapa kita bisa ketemu?
What should we do to kill time?
(Wot sud wi du tu kil dhe taim)
Apa yang sebaiknya kita lakukan untuk menghabiskan waktu?
It’s ten o’clock.
(Its ten eklok)
Ini jam 10 tepat
It’s midnight.
(its midnait)
Ini tengah malam.
It’s 6 A.M now.
(Its siks ei em nau)
Ini jam 6 pagi sekarang.
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See you at 8 P.M.
(Si yu et eit pi em)
Sampai jumpa jam 8 malam.
I can’t tell you exactly what time we will arrive.
(Ai kent telyu ikzekli wot taim wi-ell eraiv)
Aku tidak bisa memperkirakan tepatnya jam berapa kita sampai.
It’s too late now.
(its tuleit nau)
Sangat telat sekarang.
My watch is stopped.
(Mai wachis stopd)
Jamku mati.
My watch is slow.
(Mai wachis slou)
Jamku lambat.
Don’t waste your time doing nothing.
(Dont weist yo taim duing nothing)
Jangan menghabiskan waktumu tanpa melakukan apapun.
I didn’t think it was so late.
(Ai did-en thing it wes so leit)
Menurutku ini tidak terlalu terlambat.
We have plenty of time.
(Wi hev plenty of taim)
Kita punya banyak waktu.
Give me a little more time.
(Givmi e litel mo taim)
Berikan aku sedikit lagi tambahan waktu.
It’s time to leave.
(Its taim tu liv)
Ini waktunya pergi.
It’s almost time to go home.
(Its olmost taim tu go houm)
Hampir waktunya pulang.
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Time went by so fast.
(Taim went bai so fast)
Waktu berlalu sangat cepat.
The supermarket opens at 9 a.m.
(Dhe supermarket openset nain ei em)
Supermarketnya buka jam 9 pagi.
The class starts at 8 in the morning.
(Dhe klas startset eit in the moning)
Kelasnya mulai jam 8 pagi.
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What do am and pm mean?
The English-speaking world uses a 12 hour system when telling time. This means that
am and pm are used to specify whether the time is in the morning (from midnight to
noon) or in the afternoon / evening (from noon to midnight). For example,
It's 4:30 am means it's 4:30 in the morning, whereas
It's 4:30 pm means that it is 4:30 in the afternoon.
What do quarter to and quarter after mean when telling the time?
Quarter to can be used whenever there are 15 minutes until the next hour. For
example, 2:45 could also be said to be quarter to 3. Make sure that whenever you
use quarter to you use it with the coming hour! 2:45 does NOT mean the same
thing as quarter to 2; that would be 1:45. Quarter after is the opposite and can be
used whenever it's 15 minutes after the hour. For example, 3:15 could also be said to
be quarter after 3.
What does o'clock mean?
O'clock is the short version of according to the clock and is often said when the hour
is full. This means if the time is exactly 12:00, 1:00, 5:00, etc then we say o'clock at
the end of our sentence. For example:
12:00 = It's twelve o'clock
9:00 = It's nine o'clock
Many English speakers, however, will leave o'clock out and would instead pronounce
these examples as: It's twelve or It's nine.
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.”
Past and To/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.
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O’Clock, ‘Past’ and ‘To’
For hourly times use the phrase ‘o’clock’. For example: It is three o’clock
(pronounced: ‘three oh clock’)
For any minute past the hour but before the half hour, use the word ‘past’ before
the previous o’clock, or read out the full numbers.
The phrase ‘o’clock’ is a shortening of the phrase ‘of the clock’. This is to
differentiate it from when we used to tell time by the position of the sun and stars.
We always pronounce ‘o’ in this phrase as ‘oh’. In English, we sometimes call zero ‘0’,
pronounced ‘oh’, which is faster and easier than saying ‘zero’.
Examples using ‘past’:
five past three (3.05) – or three-oh-five
ten past three (3.10) – or three-ten
Quarter past three (3.15) – or three-fifteen (sometimes people say ‘fifteen
minutes past’, but never just ‘fifteen past’)
Twenty past three (3.20) – or three twenty
Twenty-five past three (3.25) – or three twenty-five
Half past three (3.30) – or three thirty
For any minute beyond the half hour, use the word ‘to’ before the next o’clock.
Examples using ‘to’:
Twenty-five to four (3.35) – on BBC radio, the presenters often say ‘five-and-
twenty-to’ (or five-and-twenty-past’) instead of twenty-five-to/past
Twenty to four (3.40) – or three forty
Quarter to four (3.45) – or three forty-five
Ten to four (3.50) – or three fifty
Five to four (3.55) three fifty-five
