What time is it?
What's the time?
Can (could) you tell me the time please?
o'clock It's one o'clock.
It's five past three. The short hand shows the hours.
It's (a) quarter past one.
The long hand shows the minutes.
to
past
a quarter to
a quarter past We don't use the word "minutes" with 5, 10, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55. It's five past three.
It's ten to eight.
It's (a) quarter to five.
But!
1:11
half past It's half past three. Seasons Months Days of the week
AM:Latin - ante meridiem = before noon
PM: Latin - post meridiem = after noon
It's eleven minutes past one.
Periods in the morning in the afternoon in the evening at the night