How do you say 1 hour in English?
For example, “It's one o'clock” (1:00). Or “It's four o'clock” (4:00). A common mistake that I have noticed with English learners is that they will use the term “o'clock” at the wrong time. For example, we do NOT say “It's six-thirty o'clock” (6:30).
- 6:25 - It's six twenty-five.
- 8:05 - It's eight O-five (the O is said like the letter O)
- 9:11 - It's nine eleven.
- 2:34 - It's two thirty-four.
When you tell the time in English, the hours always come first. If you look at the clock and see that it is 3:00 p.m., then you can say “It is three” or “The time is three o'clock.” It is that simple! Remember that when you are talking about just the hour, and no minutes, then you will often use “o'clock.”
30 minutes is half an hour, we say "half past" or "thirty". 15 minutes is quarter of an hour, we say "quarter past" or "fifteen" or "quarter to" or "forty-five". We never say "half to". It's twenty-eight minutes to twelve.
Complete step by step answer:
1 hour is equal to 60 minutes.
An hour is most commonly defined as a period of time equal to 60 minutes, where a minute is equal to 60 seconds, and a second has a rigorous scientific definition. There are also 24 hours in a day.
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- When the big hand is on the twelve, we say it's o'clock.
- When the big hand is on the three, we say it's quarter past.
- When the big hand is on the six, we say it's half past.
- When the big hand is on the nine, we say it's quarter to.
- For other times, we count the minutes in fives.
Digital | Normal Use | Timetables, TV, etc. |
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6:30 | It's half past 6. | It's six thirty. |
6:35 | It's 25 to 7. | It's six thirty-five. |
6:45 | It's quarter to seven. | It's six forty-five. |
6:55 | It's 5 to 7. | It's six fifty-five. |
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'An hour' is correct. We say 'an hour' because 'hour' is pronounced with a vowel sound in the beginning and the 'h' is silent.
Examples: You should say, 'an hour' (because hour begins with a vowel sound) and 'a history' (because history begins with a consonant sound). You should say 'a union' even if union begins with a 'u'. This is because the pronunciation begins with 'yu', a consonant sound.
This means it is 15 minutes to the next hour. If there are 60 minutes in an hour, ¼ an hour is 15 minutes. Quarter past – remember, this means it is 15 minutes past o'clock.
Who decided on these time divisions? THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal (counting in 60s) system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC.
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.
One minute is equal to 6 × 101 to unit of time second. Therefore 1 minute = 60 seconds. 1 hour = (3600 seconds / 60 seconds) minutes. 60 minutes makes a hour.
One way to think of your one-hour-a-day is as follows: one-hour-a-day comes to 365 hours a year. That's nine 40-hour work weeks.
For example 15 minutes (¼ hour) equals . 25, 30 minutes (½ hour) equals . 5, etc.
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(also hrs.) written abbreviation for hours: used when giving times or saying how long something will take: Opening times are 0900-2300 hrs.
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Very common:
- "an hour and a half"
- "one and a half hours"
- "an hour and thirty minutes"
"seven:thirty" "half past seven" both are the same But I never say half past seven, I never got in the habit of that, I always say seven thirty. Yes. If it is thirty minutes past seven o'clock, you would say 7:30. You can say 15 past 7 for 7:15 or A quarter til 7 for 6:45.