📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 28 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 6 · The house and the clock
¿Qué hora es? — on the hour
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 28 of 30: Son las tres — it is three o'clock. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la hora
the hour
lah OH-rah
¿qué hora es?
what time is it?
keh OH-rah ehs
es la una
it is one o'clock
ehs lah OO-nah
son las dos
it is two o'clock
sohn lahs DOHS
son las tres
it is three o'clock
sohn lahs TREHS
el mediodía
the noon
ehl meh-dyoh-DEE-ah
la medianoche
the midnight
lah meh-dyah-NOH-cheh
es mediodía
it is noon
ehs meh-dyoh-DEE-ah
el reloj
the clock
ehl rreh-LOH
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Son las tres — it is three o'clock. The hour is plural because there are three of them; one o'clock alone is singular: Es la una. Noon and midnight have names: es mediodía, es medianoche.
Y también · And also
¿Qué hora es? asks the time. The answer always carries la or las before the number, because la hora — the hour — is feminine and it is the hidden noun the whole sentence is about.
Ojo · Watch out
es la una for one o'clock, son las dos from two upward: the verb AND the article change with the count. Never son las una.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la hora.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 28 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.