A Door Into Hindi: Lesson 9

1.Optative / Subjunctive

2. Future Tense

3. Telling time

4. Parts of the day

5. RV + कर = having V-ed

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9.3	Telling time

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Memorize at least two or three ways of asking what time it is:

क्या वक़्त है?	वक़्त क्या है?	क्या बजा है?
क्या समय है?	समय क्या है?	कितने बजे हैं?

Memorize the following.

किस समय, किस वक़्त	at what time	छै बजे	(at) six o'clock
एक बजा	one o'clock (nominative)	सात बजे	(at) seven o'clock
एक बजे	at one o'clock (oblique)	आठ बजे	(at) eight o'clock
दो बजे	(at) two o'clock	नौ बजे	(at) nine o'clock
तीन बजे	(at) three o'clock	दस बजे	(at) ten o'clock
चार बजे	(at) four o'clock	ग्यारह बजे	(at) eleven o'clock
पाँच बजे	(at) five o'clock	बारह बजे	(at) twelve o'clock

Note that we do not use " को" or any other postposition in "o'clock expressions: e.g. एक बजे, सात बजे , etc.

All o’clock expressions are in oblique ( बजा becomes बजे ) but the postposition is only implied, not actually present; i.e. in English we say " at X o'clock," but in Hindi "at" is not there.

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000)
Section 12.2 page 151