4). Time
To ask the time we basically say 'How many'th hour is it?' i.e.
Kioma horo estas? The answer would be La tria (three o'clock).
As in English there are usually two ways (or more) of saying each time e.g.
3.15 kvindek minutoj post la tria (fifteen minutes after three) or kvarono post la tria (a quarter past three) or
la tria kaj dek kvin (three fifteen)
3.30 duono post la tria (half past three)
3.45 kvarono antaû la kvara (a quarter to four) or kvardek kvin post la tria (three forty five)
atm. (antaûtagmezo) = a.m. ptm. (posttagmezo) = p.m. tagmezo = noon noktomezo = midnight
5). The Date
Tagoj de la semajno (Days of the Week) (F : semaine)
Days : diman^co, lundo, mardo, merkredo, ^jaûdo, vendredo, sabato
Notice that they do not normally take a capital letter.The days are particularly easy for those with a knowledge of French : dimanche, lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi.
A useful expression is En la tri ^jaûda semajno (i.e. in the three Thursday week - equivalent to English 'in a month of Sundays)
Months : (Monatoj en la jaro)
Januaro, Februaro, Marto, Aprilo, Majo, Junio, Julio, Aûgusto, Septembro, Oktobro, Novembro, Decembro.
Months are normally (but not by everybody) written with capitals.
We would write a date as : la 6a (sesa) de Oktobro.
If we wish to say 'on the 6th of October' we use the preposition je. This is an unusual preposition and we will have more to say about it later but we have je la 6a de Oktobro.
In Esperanto it is always possible to leave out a preposition and show its omission by the use of the ending -n.
e.g. la 6an de Oktobro. This is how one would normally date a letter.
We already know that we use an adverbial form e.g. diman^ce for 'on Sundays'. If we want just on one particular Sunday we use je diman^co or diman^con.