Date and Time

1. Time

 Let's start with simple dialogue sentences about time, the question and different answers.

Now, time to explain the words and phrases used in this table. Let's start with the question, 'Saat kaç?'. Word by word:

Saat --> Hour

Kaç --> How many

It is not perfectly logical, but the question sentence used for asking the time is 'Saat kaç?'. Then, you may say, how do you ask how many hours? To say 'How many hours?' you would say 'Kaç saat?'. 'Saat kaç?' is a special phrase for asking the time which otherwise would not be very meaningful. More or less the same is true for the answer. The best thing is to try to learn the main phrase instead of trying to learn the logic, because the logic used here does not apply to other cases in the language. You basically say "Saat xxx.".

From the exact hour to half past, you say the time as minutes past hour. From half past to the next hour, convention is to sat the time as minutes to hour.

·                     The word for past is 'geçiyor'.

·                     The word for to is 'var'.

·                     The word for half is 'buçuk'.

·                     The word for quarter is 'çeyrek'.

The general phrase for "It is minutes past hours" is:

Saat hours-i minutes geçiyor. (Note the vowel harmony rules for the suffix -i)

And the general phrase for "It is minutes to hours" is:

Saat hours-e minutes var. (Note the vowel harmony rules for the suffix -e)

2. Date

Let's start with the days of the week and months: