Practice FrenchA1noun
l’heure
time / hour
Written with an elided article (l’heure) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« Il est quelle heure ? »
“What time is it?”
In other languages
- Spanish hora
- Portuguese hora
- Arabic وقت / ساعة
- German die Uhrzeit / die Stunde
- Italian ora / l’ora
Related A1 words
In a story
« Le train de 18 h 12 quitte rarement la gare à l'heure, et tout le monde le sait. »
from “Le train des retards”, a free B1 story you can read in full.
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