French question (time)?

Question

I have this hmwk sheet about time in french n theres this question i dont understand.

Most of the questions ask you what hour it is, n to translate to english.

This question i dont know:
Il est midi

the other questions r like:
Il est quatorze heures

but when i did some research midi means midday.
So what should i put in?

Answer 1

midi = nood or 12:00pm
minuit = midnight or 12:00am

I'll help you with the quatorze heures thig.

there are to common ways of measuring time, with the 12-hour clock and with the 24-hour clock. Usually in French the 24-hour clock is used. Here's a table of "conversion"

24-hour clock to 12-hour clock
00:00 = 12 midnight (start of day)
01:00 = 1:00 a.m.
02:00 = 2:00 a.m.
03:00 = 3:00 a.m.
04:00 = 4:00 a.m.
05:00 = 5:00 a.m.
06:00 = 6:00 a.m.
07:00 = 7:00 a.m.
08:00 = 8:00 a.m.
09:00 = 9:00 a.m.
10:00 = 10:00 a.m.
11:00 = 11:00 a.m.
12:00 = 12 noon
13:00 = 1:00 p.m.
14:00 = 2:00 p.m.
15:00 = 3:00 p.m.
16:00 = 4:00 p.m.
17:00 = 5:00 p.m.
18:00 = 6:00 p.m.
19:00 = 7:00 p.m.
20:00 = 8:00 p.m.
21:00 = 9:00 p.m.
22:00 = 10:00 p.m.
23:00 = 11:00 p.m.
24:00 = 12 midnight (end of day)

So, when you say in french il est quatorze heures (14:00) it means 2:00pm. when you say il est dix-nef heures (19:00) it means 7:00pm. and so on.

Hope that helps ;)

Answer 2

French speakers are less apt to say "it is 12 o'clock", "il est 12 heures" than they are to say "it's noon", "il est midi." For midnight, they say, "il est minuit." It's a shorter way of saying the same thing.

As for the 24-hour clock, it is indeed used in much of the rest of the world and the military. I lived in France for four months and had to adapt to everything being communicated with these times instead of the am/pm we're used to. The evening news was at 20h (yes, that's late compared to American news), stores opened after lunch at 14h, and the train I had to catch each Wednesday left at 13h10. After noon, just add 12...it's not too hard!

bonne chance avec tes devoirs!

Answer 3

Il est midi = It is noon.

Il est quatorze heures (which no one would ever say by the way) = It is two o'clock.

(Quatorze means fourteen, its like military time, which no-one in France really uses, but french teachers in high school always insist on using for some reason.)

Answer 4

If 'midi' means 'midday' then you may write as your translation "It is midday." You could also say 'It is noon' but that doesn't say quite what the French sentence says. The other one is also "It is .... and you put the time down ... translate 'quatorze' and write that word out, in numerals in a 'time' ... as in 'It is three o'clock.' Or 'It is three hours.' I know that 'quatorze' isn't three, and so do you, but this is YOUR homework and I'm not going to 'do it' for you ... just 'help you figure it out for yourself.'

Answer 5

Midi is like noon, 12:00 pm.

Answer 6

Qui va à l. a. chasse perd sa place= He who is going looking loses his place. L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur= funds would not unavoidably bring about happiness. Elle a les yeux revolver; elle a tiré l. a. premiére; elle m'a tué= She has have been given set off chuffed eyes and he or she became into the 1st to shoot and he or she killed me

Answer 7

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