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If it's 22:25, would it be more common to say "son las diez y veinticinco de la tarde" o "son las veintidos y veinticinco"?
Also what are some ways to ask for the time besides "Que hora es"? Maybe something less formal
If you wanted to say "1:00am", would you say "la una de la noche" or "la una de la madrugada" or maybe "la una de la medianoche" or can we use "am" and "pm" in daily speech?
I am a beginner Spanish student and we are learning how to say what time things are at and tell the time. On an online homework assignment, I got these two wrong.
The question I was supposed to answer was “¿A qué hora es el almuerzo?”. They said it was at 12 pm. So I wrote “El almuerzo es a las doce de la tarde.” But they said it was supposed to be “El almuerzo es a las doce del día.” Shouldn’t both work?
On the other one I got wrong, they gave us times and we were supposed to say what time it is. It said 12:00 am. I put “Son las doce de la mañana.” It was corrected as “Son las doce de la noche.”
Before this, I thought that de la mañana = anytime in the AM, de la tarde = PM before dark, and de la noche = PM after dark. Is this incorrect? I know that the other ways to say 12 PM and 12 AM are “mediodía” and “medianoche” but why were my answers wrong?
I do consider 12 AM night not morning, so I guess de la noche makes sense, however the correct answer for 1:00 AM was “Es la una de la mañana.” Is it not correct to say de la mañana until 1 AM? I think of 1 AM as night as well.
Anyways, thanks in advance. I know probably I over complicated the question with all my writing, but I wanted to share my thought processes.