Spanish also uses the formula equivalent to English ‘six forty three (6.43)’,
las seis cuarenta y tres. This is also adopted for timetables and other similar
contexts which employ the 24 hour clock.
It is common to include horaswhen quoting hours alone from thirteen
onwards:
las veinte cuarenta y ocho 20.48/8.48 p.m.
las catorce horas 14.00/2.00 p.m.
Temporal divisions within the day are stated as follows:
de la madrugada in the morning (until sunrise)
de la mañana in the morning
de la tarde in the afternoon/evening
de la noche at night
Dates
In contrast with English, cardinal numbers are always used in Spanish for
days of the month, with the exception of the ordinal primero‘the first’
which frequently replacesel (día) uno:
¿Qué fecha era? El (día) siete.What was the date? The seventh.
el primero de abril the first of April
A full date in Spanish consists of el(except at the head of a letter) + cardinal
number + de+ month + de+ year:
Se fundó el 15 de agosto de It was founded on the 15th
- August 1534.
Dates are always read as full numbers: setecientos once‘711 (seven eleven)’,
mil cuatrocientos noventa y dos ‘1492 (fourteen ninety-two)’.
23.1.5.2
1111
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1011
1
12111
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
20111
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
30111
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
40
41111
Cardinal
numerals
243
Por with times of day
When a specific time is not mentioned, porreplaces dein the above
phrases: Fueron porla tarde‘they went in the afternoon’, butFueron
a las dos dela tarde‘They went at two o’clock in the afternoon’.
This provides combinations such as: ayer por la tarde‘yesterday
afternoon’,mañana por la mañana‘tomorrow morning’.
