Translation
hour; o'clock, time of day
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Examples
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I waited for you for two hours.
Kioma ?
What time is it?
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The meeting lasted three hours.
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He will come at six o'clock.
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In one hour we will be home.
is the sixty-minute unit and the position on the clock. Clock time uses the ordinal with : , or just . The question is Kioma ? - kioma, the ordinal of , because you are asking which numbered hour it is, not how many hours there are. Duration is different again and takes the accusative with no preposition at all: . Three constructions, one word; get them straight early and telling the time stops being fiddly.
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Word family
Words built on horo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- ĉiuhoreadverb
every hour, hourly
ĉiuhoro: at each hour
- duonhoronoun
half an hour
duonohoro: a half hour
- horaronoun
timetable, schedule
horo-ar-
Used in
Stories
(1)Grammar articles
(10)The Esperanto Accusative: What -n Does, and Its Four Jobs
Esperanto Affixes That Are Also Words: ilo, aro, eta, igi
Esperanto False Friends: Words That Lie to English Speakers
Esperanto Fractions, Multiples and Groups: -on-, -obl-, -op-
The Esperanto Letter Ĥ: The Least-Loved Letter
Esperanto Measurements: Units, Decimals and Rates Aloud
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
Telling the Time and Dates in Esperanto: je la tria
Tricky Esperanto Prepositions: je, po and Direction -n
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 3: horo, super, opinii and 5 more words.