All German-speaking countries use a 24 hour system to tell the time, instead of the 12 hour system that most English-speaking countries use. Because of this, you don't need to worry about saying "am" and "pm." Instead simply use the numbers 13-24 to specify that the time you are talking about occurs in the afternoon or evening. So, for example, in German, 9:00 am is simply 9:00 Uhr, but 9:00 pm is 21:00 Uhr. Note that 24 Uhr (midnight) is also commonly referred to as 0 Uhr, since the counter is set back to 0 at midnight. An example response to Es ist gegen 15:45 Uhr: Oh nein, ich glaube, ich komme zu spät zu meiner nächsten Unterrichtsstunde! (Oh no, I think I'm going to be late for my next class!).
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All sentences about "The Time" are part of our Anki import file. You can learn these phrases by selecting the following tag in Anki: #lingoneo German Topic TheTime
All sentences about "The Time" are part of our Anki import file. You can learn these phrases by selecting the following tag in Anki: #lingoneo German Topic TheTime
It's around 3:45 pm.
