French Lesson 3

Hi again, and welcome to your third online french class! :P I posted the previous french lesson like a minute ago, so sorry if you're kind of annoyed.

So far, we have learned how to say stuff like, "Hello, how are you" or "He is interesting" or "She likes to watch TV." I hope you guys remember...if not, you can always go back to the previous posts to review (don't worry, they're not going to disappear!). ;)

Oh, and I forgot to say this, but the annoying thing about french is that there are genders for pretty much everything. For example, a pencil is male, and a calculator is female. (Hehe, awkward!)
This time, we're going to learn the numbers and how to say the time! :D
Here's all the numbers (that we're going to use later to tell time, so I'm only going up to 12):
1- un
2- deux
3- trois
4- quatre
5- cinq
6- six
7- sept
8- huit
9- neuf
10- dix
11- onze
12- douze (OR noon= midi, midnight= minuit)

heure= hour
And since heure is female, for 1, instead of saying un, we have to say the female version which is une.

So, we put a number, heure, and the front part of the sentence together, which becomes: Il est une heure. (It is 1:00. The direct translation is actually "It is one hour.") And did you recognize "il est?!?!?!" That's the male etre conjugation that we learned in the first lesson! :D And it's male because time is male in french. :P So just to clear things up, time/clock is male and hour is female.
Another example is: Il est onze heures. (It is 11:00.)

And here are some extra stuff you can add to the sentence:
in the morning= du matin
in the afternoon= de l'apres-midi
in the evening= du soir

Sooo, to put that all together, the sentence can end up like: Il est huit heures du matin. (It is 8 o'clock in the morning/8 AM.)

But those are just the solid hours, not including the minutes. There's more! More numbers!!! :D And because we're still learning about time, I'm only going to teach you the numbers up to sixty.
dix= ten
vingt= twenty
trente= thirty
quarante= forty
cinquante= fifty
soixante= sixty
Usually, when you say 21 or 31 or 41 or anything 1, put an "et" before that. So 21 would be vingt-et-un. But 22 doesn't have the "et" before it; it's just vingt-deux. (Sorry if I'm explaining this weird.)
But you know how in english, we say twenty one but when it comes to the tens, we say eleven instead of ten one? We do that in french too! :D So here are all the tens numbers:
eleven= onze
twelve= douze
thirteen= treize
fourteen= quatorze
fifteen= quinze
sixteen= seize
seventeen= dix-sept
eighteen= dix-huit
nineteen= dix-neuf

Ok, so know all your numbers first before reading on.

So now that everyone knows the numbers from 1 through 60 hopefully, we can start saying things like, "It is 7:45!"
So you start the same old way: "Il est sept heures...." After that, you add the 45, which is quarante-cinq. Together, it will be "Il est sept heures quarante-cinq!" It's just that easy, just put:
1. Il est
2. (a number to stand for hours) heure(s)
3. (a number to stand for minutes)
together and you'll be able to tell people the time! And if you want, you can add the "in the morning" and "in the afternoon" and "in the evening" stuff after that too if you want. It will be like "Il est sept heures quarante-cinq du soir." (It is 7:45 PM.)

So, how do you ask what the time is? Well, just know this one simple sentence, and you're good to go!
Quelle heure est-il?

Haha sorry, it seems like I'm writing a lot. Maybe I am, I don't know. But I'm putting A LOT of spaces in between everything (I'm pretty much putting a space in between every other sentence) so if you put all this on a word document, it'll probably just be like one or two pages. :) Short and sweet, right? Hehe.... :P