This last example is the title of a famous book by Gabriel García Márquez. Just like in English, for this context, you need to use the plural los tiempos:Įnglish: In Roman times, there was much wealth.Įspañol: En los tiempos de los romanos, había mucha riqueza.Įspañol: El amor en los tiempos del cólera. You can also use tiempo to discuss a period of history. Here are a few examples:Įspañol: No quieres hacerlo antes de tiempo. The next use of tiempo is for talking about a deadline. And, to distinguish this from the case about with ‘weather’, consider that mucho goes with ‘a quantity of time’ because the idea of ‘ a lot of weather’ is a little strange. Here you can see another combination with hacer and tiempo.
(Long time no see).Įspañol: Hace mucho tiempo que no nos vemos. Here are a few examples:Įnglish: I’m sorry, I don’t have any time.Įnglish: It’s been a while since we have seen each other. The first use of tiempo is for describing a quantity of time.
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Of course, that’s not the full story but it is a short, easy to remember summary. Try think of tiempo vs hora vs vez as ‘quantity of time’ vs ‘clock time’ vs ‘moments in time’ respectively. You’ll see one of these in the next section and another in the section on false friends with time below. Whenever you want to say ‘the weather is…’ you either need to start with the verb hacer as above or start the sentence with el clima (the equivalent of climate).Īnother warning: hacer in combination with tiempo can also mean a few things completely unrelated to weather. Spanish students often make mistakes by translating sentences similar to the above as follows:Įnglish: The weather is really dry in the south.Įspañol: El tiempo es muy seco en el sur. Quick warning: you need to be extra careful when translating the idea of weather from English. If you want to know if tiempo is referring to the weather, listen or look for a combination with hacer and bueno or malo. In several different situations, tiempo aligns with the idea of time in English but in one context it means ‘weather’. The place I’m going to start to help you explore ‘time’ in Spanish is with the multiple contexts of tiempo. You’ll also learn a few important false friends that pop up around the idea of time in Spanish. In this post, you’ll learn all you need to know about discussing time in Spanish including asking for the time, referring to ‘a time’ and giving a quantity of time. To complicate matters you can also use tiempo to talk about the weather. There are three Spanish words you can choose when translating the English word ‘time’: tiempo, hora and vez.
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