Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Telling Time in Korean

Hello fellow students. Let's learn about time. Before we begin make sure you know your Korean numbers. Both the Sino and the Native-Korean numbering systems will be needed to tell time. If you aren't already familiar I have a video for each in the description.
TO TELL TIME IN KOREAN YOU USE the native Korean Numbering system for hours and the word 시 means hour or o'clock.
시 is actually a counter. That's another video you should watch. But, basically, when you are saying how many of something there is you need to use a counter. The counter for hours is 시 and numbers 1, 2,3, and 4 all lose their last letter when they're used with a counter.
So we say han-shi instead of hana-shi
du-shi not dul-shi
se-shi and ne-shi without the t sound.
and the rest of the numbers to twelve just like normal da-seot shi ya-seot-shi

And then when we're telling minutes we use the Sino Korean Numbering System and the word for minutes is 분. This word is also a counter. And it's a homonym of the formal word for person. Which could make things confusing, but context should make it obvious which translation is meant.
so just put the sino Korean number in front of 분 (bun) and when you get to 30 min you can instead say half. 반.
Here are a few examples to make sure we understand:
to say 5 o'clock you say
다섯시
to say 1:30 you say
한시 삼십분
or
한시 반
and there's one more important thing to add to the time: AM or PM
AM is 오전 and PM is 오후 and this goes before the time
So 5:00 am is 오전 다섯시
and 1:30 pm is 오후 한시 삼십분 or is 오후 한시 반
 and that's how you tell time in Korean. If you want to say "It is 5:00am" then use the verb i-da 이다
오전 다섯시야.
오전 다섯시여요.
오전 다섯십니다.
Now you know how to say time in Korean. Thanks for studying with me, you guys.
here's some practice answers in the description.

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