¿A qué hora es el programa? (2:45)

Question

How would I say the program is at 2:45, I've tried everything I can think of, son las, es la, es las, son la im lost

Answer 1

Most text books require that once you have passed the half hour, you subtract minutes from the next hour.

Therefore, "El programa es a las tres menos quince (or cuarto)"

This is not to contradict the other posts--merely to clarify un pquito.

Edit:

Saying "a las dos y cuarenta y cinco is used by many people, as is. "a quince para las tres."

Answer 2

In the sentence you're trying to write in Spanish, the verb should agree with the subject, which is "programa." Therefore you need "es." The program begins AT 2:45, so you need a preposition for "at." The preposition that is used in this context in Spanish is "a." Spanish uses "las" for every hour except "one" (for that, use "la"). Forty-five minutes after 2:00 can be expressed as "las dos y cuarenta y cinco," or, perhaps more commonly, as a quarter to the next hour: "las tres menos cuarto" (or possibly "las tres menos quince).

Putting all that together, you would have "El programa es a las dos y cuarenta y cinco" or "El programa es a las tres menos cuarto."

Answer 3

How would I say the program is at 2:45, I've tried everything I can think of, son las, es la, es las, son la im lost

"is at blanck o'clock" not "it is blank o'clock"

Son las 2:45- It is 2:45..Here las 2:45 is the subject of the sentence, so you use son.

El programa es a las 2:45. Not es las, but es a las, with the a. The program is at 2:45.

Es is matched to el programa, not las 2:45, because el programa is the subject of the sentence, not las 2:45.

I don't know if you need to write out 2:45 or not for your exercise. Or how much of the start you need.

A las 2:45

Es a las 2:45

Es a las dos y cuarenta y cinco.

You'e a lot quicker than I, bosque. - AnnRon, Dec 6, 2016