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What time is it? 何時ですか？
英語で時刻を言う。質問：What time is it? 答えは常に形式主語「It's」で始まる：It's three o'clock。分について：(a) quarter past three（3:15）、half past three（3:30）、(a) quarter to four（3:45）。一日の時間帯：in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, at night。新しい語：time, hour, minute, o'clock, half, quarter, morning, afternoon, evening, night。発音コーナー：「three」の「th」と無音の文字。
Dialogue
Where's "it"? — 「it」はどこ？
- Emma Minsu, what time is it? ミンス、何時ですか？
- Minsu Is three o'clock. 三時です。（間違い: 英語は形式主語「It's」が必要 —「It's three o'clock」、「it」を省けない）
- Emma Start with "It's": It's three o'clock. 「It's」で始めて：It's three o'clock。
- Minsu Oh, it's three o'clock. It's late! あ、三時です。遅い！
Dialogue
At what time? — 何時に？
- Jack Emma, what time is the class? エマ、授業は何時ですか？
- Emma It's at nine o'clock. 九時です。
- Jack And what time is it now? 今は何時ですか？
- Emma It's a quarter to nine. It's early. 九時十五分前です。早いです。
Vocabulary
| 汉字 | Pinyin | POS | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| time | n. | 時間 | |
| hour | n. | 1時間 | |
| minute | n. | 分 | |
| o'clock | n. | …時（ちょうど） | |
| half | n. | 半 | |
| quarter | n. | 15分 | |
| morning | n. | 朝 | |
| afternoon | n. | 午後 | |
| evening | n. | 夕方 | |
| night | n. | 夜 |
Grammar
Telling the time: "It's ..." 時刻を言う：「It's …」
In English you always tell the time with the dummy subject "It's": It's three o'clock, It's nine o'clock. You must NOT drop "it", even though many languages have no subject here. For the minutes, use "past" up to the half hour and "to" after it: five past three (3:05), (a) quarter past three (3:15), half past three (3:30), (a) quarter to four (3:45). Parts of the day take a preposition: in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening — but at night. To ask: What time is it? For a scheduled time, use "at": The class is at nine.
英語は時刻を常に形式主語「It's」で言う：It's three o'clock, It's nine o'clock。多くの言語がここで主語を持たなくても、「it」を省いてはいけない。分：半までは「past」、その後は「to」：five past three（3:05）、(a) quarter past three（3:15）、half past three（3:30）、(a) quarter to four（3:45）。時間帯には前置詞：in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening — でも at night。質問：What time is it? 予定の時刻には「at」：The class is at nine.
- What time is it? — It's three o'clock. 何時ですか？ — 三時です。
- It's half past two. 二時半です。
- It's a quarter to four. 四時十五分前です（3:45）。
- The class is at nine in the morning. 授業は朝九時です。
pronunciation
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