what time is it

English

English phrasebook

This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness. For other English entries on this topic, see Time.

Alternative forms

• what's the time?

Phrase

what time is it?

1. What is the time of day? (used to request for the current hour and approximate number of minutes after the hour)

Synonyms

• how goes the enemy (humorous)
• what o'clock is it (archaic)
• what time have you got

Translations

what is the time of day?

• Afrikaans: hoe laat is dit?
• Albanian: sa është ora?
• Arabic: كَمِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ؟ (kami s-sāʕatu?), أَيَّةُ سَاعَةٍ هٰذِهِ؟ (ʔayyatu sāʕatin hāḏihi?)

  Egyptian Arabic: الساعة كام؟ (es-saʕa kam?), هي الساعة كام؟ (heya es-saʕa kam?)

  Moroccan Arabic: شحال فالساعة؟ (šḥāl f-es-sāʕa), شحال الساعة؟ (šḥāl es-sāʕa)

• Armenian: ժամը քանի՞սն է (žamə kʻani^?sn ē)
• Asturian: qué hora ye?
• Azerbaijani: saat neçədir?
• Bashkir: сәғәт нисә? (səğət nisə?)
• Basque: zer ordu da?
• Belarusian: ко́лькі ча́су? (kólʹki čásu?)
• Bengali: কয়টা বাজে? (koẏṭa baje?)
• Breton: pet eur eo?
• Bulgarian: ко́лко е ча́сът? (kólko e čásǎt?)
• Burmese: ဘယ်အချိန်ရှိပြီလဲ။ (bhaia.hkyinhri.prilai:||)
• Catalan: quina hora és?
• Cebuano: unsa nang oras?
• Cherokee: ᎯᎳᎢᏴ ᎠᏟᏱᎵ? (hilaiyv atliyili?)
• Chichewa: nthawi ili bwanji?
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 幾點鐘？ / 几点钟？ (gei² dim² zung¹?)

  Hokkien: 幾點？ / 几点？ (kúi-tiám?)

  Mandarin: 幾點了？ / 几点了？ (zh) (jǐdiǎn le?)

• Czech: kolik je hodin?
• Danish: hvad er klokken? (da)
• Dutch: hoe laat is het?
• Esperanto: kioma horo estas?
• Estonian: mis kell on?, palju kell on?
• Faroese: hvat er klokkan?, hvussu nógv er klokkan?
• Finnish: mitä kello on?, paljonko kello on?
• French: quelle heure est-il ?
• Galician: que hora é?, que horas son?
• Georgian: რომელი საათია? (ka) (romeli saatia?)
• German: wieviel Uhr ist es?, wie spät ist es ? (de)
• Greek: τι ώρα είναι; (el) (ti óra eínai?)
• Greenlandic: qassinngorpa?
• Hawaiian: ʻo ka hola ʻehia kēia?
• Hebrew: מָה הַשָּׁעָה? (ma ha-sha'á?)
• Hindi: समय क्या है? (samay kyā hai?), कितने बजे हैं? (kitne baje ha͠i?), टाइम क्या है? (ṭāim kyā hai?)
• Hungarian: mennyi az idő? (hu), hány óra van? (hu), hány óra?
• Icelandic: hvað er klukkan?
• Ido: qua tempo esas?
• Indonesian: jam berapa sekarang?
• Irish: cén t-am é?, cad é an t-am?, cén t-am atá sé?
• Italian: che ora è?, che ore sono?
• Japanese: 何時ですか (なんじですか, nanji desu ka?), 何時？ (ja) (なんじ？, nanji?) (casual)
• Jeju: 멧 시우꽈? (met siukkwa?) (polite)
• Jingpho: hkying gade ta?, hkying gade rai?, hkying gade rai sai ta?
• Kapampangan: nanu na pung oras? (formal), nanu nang oras? (informal)
• Kashmiri: کٔژ بَجییہِ؟ (kạċ bajēyi?), بَجییہِ کٔژ؟ (bajēyi kạċ?), وَقٕت کیٛا آو؟ (waqụt k'ā āw?), وَقٕت کیٛا گَو؟ (waqụt k'ā gav?)
• Kazakh: сағат қанша? (sağat qanşa?), уақыт қанша? (uaqyt qanşa?)
• Khmer: ម៉ោងប៉ុន្មានហើយ? (maong ponmaan haəy?)
• Korean: 몇 시입니까? (myeot si-imnikka?), 몇 시예요? (myeot si-yeyo?), 몇 시야? (myeot si-ya?) (casual)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەعات چەنە؟ (se'at çene?)

• Kyrgyz: саат канча? (saat kanca?), саат канча болду? (saat kanca boldu?)
• Lakota: mázaškaŋškaŋ tóna huwó? (male speaker), mázaškaŋškaŋ tóna he? (female speaker)
• Lao: ຈັກໂມງ (chak mōng)
• Latin: quota hōra est?
• Latvian: cik ir pulkstenis?
• Lithuanian: kiek valandų?
• Low German:

  German Low German: wo laat is dat?

• Luxembourgish: wéivill Auer ass et?, wéi spéit ass et?
• Macedonian: ко́лку е ча́сот? (kólku e čásot?)
• Malay: pukul berapa sekarang?
• Maltese: x’ħin sar?, x’ħin hu?
• Maori: he aha te taima
• Meänkieli: mitäs kello oon
• Mòcheno: um biavle ist s?
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хэдэн цаг болж байна? (xeden cag bolž bajna?), цаг хэд болж байна? (cag xed bolž bajna?)

• Navajo: díkwíígóó oolkił?
• Norman: quaï heure qu'il est (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hva er klokka?, hva er klokken?

  Nynorsk: kva er klokka? er klokka mange?, kor mykje er klokka?, (dialectal) kva lid det?

• Ojibwe: aaniish epiichaag?
• Persian:

  Dari: سَاعَت چَنْد اَسْت؟ (sā'at čand ast?), سَاعَت چَنْدَه؟ (sā'at čanda?)

  Iranian Persian: ساعَت چَنْد اَسْت؟ (sâ'at čand ast?), ساعَت چَنْدِه؟ (sâ'at čande?)

• Polish: która godzina?, która jest godzina?
• Portuguese: que horas são?, quantas horas são?, quantas horas?
• Romanian: ce oră e?, ce oră este?, cât e ceasul?
• Romansch: tge uras èsi?
• Russenorsk: nogli klok?, mangeli Klokka?
• Russian: кото́рый час? (ru) (kotóryj čas?), ско́лько вре́мени? (ru) (skólʹko vrémeni?)
• Scottish Gaelic: dè an uair a tha e?
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: колико је сати?

  Roman: koliko je sati?

• Sicilian: chi ura sunnu?
• Slovak: koľko je hodín?
• Slovene: koliko je ura?
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: kak na času je?

• South Slavey: dánéht’é sadzéé?
• Southern Altai: саат канча? (saat kanča?)
• Spanish: ¿qué hora es?, ¿qué horas son?
• Swahili: ni saa ngapi?
• Swedish: vad är klockan?, hur mycket är klockan?
• Tagalog: anong oras na po? (formal), anong oras na? (informal)
• Tajik: соат чанд аст? (soat čand ast?)
• Tamil: மணி என்ன? (maṇi eṉṉa?)
• Tatar: сәгать ничә? (sägat’ niçä?)
• Telugu: టైమెంతయింది? (ṭaimentayindi?)
• Thai: กี่โมงแล้ว (gìi moong lɛ́ɛo)
• Tibetan: ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་རེད། (chu tshod ga tshod red)
• Turkish: saat kaç? (literally “hours how-many?”)
• Turkmen: sagat näçe?
• Ukrainian: котра́ годи́на? (kotrá hodýna?)
• Urdu: کْیا وَقْت ہُوا؟ (kyā vaqt huā?), کِتْنے بَجے ہَیں؟ (kitne baje ha͠i?), ٹائِم کْیا ہَے؟ (ṭāim kyā hai?), ٹائِم کْیا ہو رَہا ہَے؟ (ṭāim kyā ho rahā hai?)
• Uyghur: سائەت قانچە بولدى؟ (sa'et qanche boldi?)
• Uzbek: soat nechi boʻldi?
• Vietnamese: mấy giờ rồi?, bây giờ là mấy giờ?
• Volapük: düp kinid binos-li?
• Welsh: faint o'r gloch yw hi?, faint o'r gloch ydy hi?
• Yiddish: וויפֿל איז דער זייגער? (vifl iz der zeyger?)
• Yoruba: kí ni aago wí?, aago mélòó ni ó lù?
• Yup'ik: qavcinun kaugta cass'aq?, wataimarta?
• Zazaki: sehat çend a?
• Zulu: sithini isikhathi?

See also

• o'clock
• what day is it today?