This document provides examples of how to tell time in Portuguese using both exact and inexact times. It gives the phrases for hours, half hours, quarters of an hour, and minutes before or after the hour. It also briefly introduces the imperative form in Portuguese, including how to give positive and negative commands and invitations using the imperative.

1. Imperative form What time is it?

2. What time is it? Hora exata: It’s ....... o’clock. It’s eight o’clock. It’s eleven o’clock. It’s three o’clock. It’s two o’clock. It’s six o’clock. It’s seven o’clock.

3. What time is it? It’s twelve o’clock. It’s noon/ It’s midday (meio dia) It’s midnight (meia noite) Hora inexata: It’s one forty-five It’s ten thirty-seven It’s eleven twenty-four It’s seven thirty-seven It’s six fifty-five It’s three forty-eight

4. What time is it? It’s a quarter past twelve Quinze minutos passados: a quarter past It’s a quarter past eleven Quinze minutos para (próxima hora): a quarter to It’s a quarter to one

5. What time is it? Meia hora passada: It’s half past ... It’s half past nine It’s half past two It’s half past five Past (indica período passado) It’s ten past ten It’s two past twelve It’s twenty-one past five

6. What time is it? To (indica período para a próxima hora) It’s two to eleven It’s twenty to twelve It’s twenty-six to eight

7. Imperative Form Forma-se com o verbo no infinitivo (forma original) sem o to. Run! Swim! Read! Jump! Expressa ordem ou pedido. Clean the floor! Play the piano!

8. Imperative Form Forma negativa: Usa-se DON’T antes do verbo . Don’t sit down! Don’t study! Don’t sleep! Expressa convite ou proposta, usando LET’S antes do verbo . Let’s eat now! Let’s walk! Let’s write!

9. Imperative Form Forma negativa: Acrescenta-se Not após LET’S. Let’s not write! Let’s not drink water!