Time expressions

How to tell the time, and words for days, months and seasons in many languages.

• Telling the time
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• Seasons

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Telling the time

How to tell the time in various languages.

1. Afrikaans
2. Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian
3. Catalan, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Taiwanese), Cornish, Croatian, Cuyonon, Czech
4. Danish, Dutch
5. English, Esperanto, Estonian
6. Faroese, Finnish, French
7. German, German (Berlinisch), Greek, Gujarati
8. Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian
9. Icelandic, Irish (Gaelic), Italian
10. Japanese
11. Kadazandusun, Korean
12. Laala, Latin, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish
13. Macedonian, Manx (Gaelic)
14. Neolatin, Norwegian
15. Ojibwe
16. Polish
17. -
18. Russian
19. Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish
20. Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish
21. Urdu
22. Värmlandic, Vietnamese, Volapük
23. Welsh
24. -
25. Yoruba

Time expressions in many languages (Excel, 205K)

How to write today's date in many languages
https://www.curiousnotions.com/todays-date/

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