Learn how to talk about time
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| 여러분, 안녕하세요? 에이미에요. Hi, everybody! I’m Amy. |
| Welcome back to KoreanClass101.com’s 삼분 한국어, the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Korean. |
| In the last lesson, we covered directions in Korean. Today we are going to learn how to ask for, and give, the time. |
| In Korean, "What time is it?" is |
| 지금 몇 시예요? |
| The first word, 지금, means "now." |
| The next word, 몇, means "what time” |
| Literally, 지금 몇 시예요? means "Right now what time is it?” |
| When telling the hours—saying what o'clock it is—we use a native Korean number followed by 시: |
| 1 한 시 |
| 2 두 시 |
| 3 세 시 |
| 4 네 시 |
| 5 다섯 시 |
| 6 여섯 시 |
| 7 일곱 시 |
| 8 여덟 시 |
| 9 아홉 시 |
| 10 열 시 |
| 11 열한 시 |
| 12 열두 시 |
| Remember that the counter for minutes is 분, |
| and be careful, when counting minutes we use Chinese numbers, while for hours we use Korean numbers. |
| So 12:12 would be 열두 시 십이 분. |
| AM in Korean is 오전 and PM is 오후. |
| The 오 means "noon," so, before noon is 오전and after noon is 오후. |
| So "seven AM" is 오전 일곱 시, and "eight PM" is 오후 여덟 시. |
| As in English, we also have special words for noon and midnight. 정오 means noon “sharp” and "midnight" means 자정. |
| Now it’s time for Amy’s insights: |
| Unfortunately we do not have special words for a quarter hour. However, we have one for half an hour: 반. |
| You could say 30 minutes just like English but 반 is easy to say. |
| So, how would you say “it is 5:30 PM”? |
| 오후 5시 반 |
| how about 5:30 AM? |
| either 오전 5시 반 or 새벽 5시 반. |
| That's all for today—and, in fact, for the entire series! Thanks so much for watching all the 삼분 한국어 lessons. You've done a great job to come this far, but don't forget that the most important part is yet to come: get out there and practice all the Korean phrases you've learned! And be sure to check out KoreanClass101.com to take your language knowledge to the next level! |
| 여러분, 들어 주셔 서 대단히 감사합니다! |
| 다음 시리즈에서 또 만나요! |
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