Levantine Arabic/Time

Units of time
(sēʕa/sāʕa) is one of the few word that is often pronounced with "ē" even in South Levantine. I doesn't only mean "hour" but also "clock" or "watch".

Telling time


When telling the time you literally say "the hour is" ( is-sēʕa / is-sāʕa) followed by the feminine (1-2) or independent (3-12) form of the number for the hour.

The minutes can be expressed by their exact number or by a fraction (half, third, quarter) of an hour. The word for minute ( da'ī'a) is only used for numbers larger than 10.

For fraction that are nearer to the next hour, they are substracted from it using the word "except" ( 'illa).

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