Friday, March 28, 2008

4-2 Express At What Time...

...something happens use the preposition à at

Celine travaille à sept heures moins vingt. Celine works at 6:40.

  • Laison occurs between the numbers
    • deux, trois, six, dix (sounding like z) and
    • neuf (sound like v)
  • and the word heure(s)
Il est deux heures. It is 2 o'clock.
Il est neuf heures et quart. It is 9:15.
  • *Does not occur between est and a number starting with a vowel (ex: onze)
The 24 hour clock is used to express official time.
  • When expressing these things;
    • departure times
    • movie times and
    • store hours
  • you only use numbers and not with any expression like le et demie, moins le quart, etc.


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