la
/ˈoɾa/
Translation
hour, time, o'clock
Word origin
From Latin hora ('hour, time, season'), borrowed from Greek hora.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- hora
- English cognates
- hour, horoscope
Grammar
Examples
? .
What time is it? I have forgotten my phone at home.
atiende.
She has been waiting for more than an hour and nobody is attending to her.
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It is time to make a final decision.
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I have an appointment with the doctor at half past four.
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The hours flew by while I was reading that novel.
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We got home at dinner time.
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Stories
(20)A Paula le duele todo
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Casi no llega
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Cuando llegué, ya había pasado
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Cuanto más espero, peor
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El nuevo doctor de Paula
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El trabajo de Pedro
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En el médico
3 min read · Core 1000
Es importante que descanses
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Espero que vengáis
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Lleva toda la mañana
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María lleva una hora esperando
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Más vale tarde que nunca
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Menudo desastre
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Pasen y siéntense
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Perdido en la ciudad
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Por lo tanto, decidimos
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Por todas partes
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Una organización imposible
3 min read · Core 5000
El primer día de Laura
4 min read · Core 1000
La cena de los Pereira
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Grammar articles
(12)The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)
Spanish Future Tense: ir a + Infinitive and the Inflectional Future
Spanish Impersonal Verbs: hay, hace, se habla and the No-Subject Constructions
Spanish Indefinites: alguno, ninguno, alguien, nadie, algo, nada, cualquiera
Spanish Question Words: Qué, Quién, Cómo, Dónde and the Accent That Asks
Spanish Ordinals, Fractions, Dates and Time (el primer día, media hora, son las tres y cuarto)
Spanish Question Words: qué, quién, cuándo, dónde, cómo, cuál, cuánto, por qué
Spanish Reflexive Verbs: levantarse, llamarse, lavarse and the Pronoun Position
Saber vs Conocer: The Two Spanish Verbs for 'To Know'
Spanish Set Phrases with tener, dar, hacer, echar (tener ganas, echar de menos, hacer falta)
Spanish Stem-Changing Verbs: e>ie, o>ue, e>i and the Boot Pattern
Verbs with Prepositions in Spanish (Régimen Preposicional): the Fixed Verb + Preposition Pairs
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