French Makes No Sense: Time

[@katharina...]

"When you know what time it is, then you know what time it does" - French

[@chckkt893]

I swear we French don't give a shit about punctuality. I got that one friend I have to lie about the time we suppose to see each other just for him to be on time, sometimes by an hour 😈

[@anaisabelsantos4661]

You could replace "french", "portuguese" is exactly the same... Time is... Time does... Time makes... Minuts being irrelevant most of the time...

[@Ennar]

@@chckkt893 maybe we have a same friend.

[@ikwoessien]

There is an expression in Nigeria called "Nigerian time". This is typically 2 or more hours after the stated time.😅😅

[@Robyn_iz_Here]

Sounds like a Doctor Who qoute

[@soliareTheEklat]

In German you generally ask "Wie spät ist es?" This literally translates to "How late is it?" which makes it sound to me like no matter how punctual you want to be, you already know you won't make it in time.

[@dino5428]

As an american learning Hochdeutsch, I was taught that you generally ask "Wie viel Uhr?" As in, "How many hours?" Is that a regional difference? And if so, which regions say which?

[@oOMidnightPoisonOo]

You can say both. „Wie viel Uhr ist es?“ is just the more polite way of asking that question. I use both commonly.

[@caillou04]

​@@ileana8360 While your translation might be literal, it just ignores the context why it actually makes sense. Similar to how you can say 5 o'clock in English, you say 5 Uhr, meaning that Uhr refers to a certain hour/time of the day in contrast to hour as a time interval. Therefore the question "Wie viel Uhr ist es?" is logical to ask which hour of the day it is

[@yahlov]

@@dino5428 HOCHdeutsch means everybody should understand it. there are some basics even the tiefste hinterwäldler should know. "Wieviel Uhr ist es?" should work fine

[@BFedie518]

​@@ileana8360 Uhr is the word for hour *and* the word for clock.

[@giannifois8948]

Just one rule: In every romance language, “time” (“tempo” in italian, I don’t know others) means both “time” and “weather”.

[@businessgamerprb5398]

Romance ? Romance language?

[@monjecareca7787]

in portuguese too

[@HollowGolem]

​@@businessgamerprb5398"romance language" refers to languages which derived from Latin. Specifically, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Italian, and a tiny fragment of English. They're called romance because Latin was spoken in ancient Rome.

[@francesco5440]

​@@businessgamerprb5398He meant the languages that are created from Latin.

[@nostalji75]

@@HollowGolem *disclaimer: the following two statements are complete bs. The correct term is: Romance language and both German and English aren't classified as such.* no romance is refering to an art style or a historical period. He meant romanic, but he is still wrong. German and English both are romanic languages for which his rule doesnt apply. Btw latein word for time: tempus and for weather is tempestas. Similiar words but they are different. So it doesnt even apply to latein THE romanic language...

[@Izzmonster]

French is simultaneously the most laid back and has the most rules.

[@havefuntazarasu5367]

You havent seen indonesian

[@Izzmonster]

@@havefuntazarasu5367 You are correct. I should check it out.

[@bensonjarvis5025]

@@havefuntazarasu5367oh boy

[@DasOrange]

*German enters chat

[@CesarARodriguez]

Everyone asks what time it is, and what time it does. But in Spanish we ask "How is the time?" Gotta check their feelings too

[@nelan3334]

Same in Croatian (kakvo je vrijeme?) = how is the time/weather.

[@MrRhix]

Same in portugal! The peninsula brothers care

[@kyrialeyson]

😂😂😂

[@ladysilvara]

I’m an American, and how I say it is either, how is the weather outside, or, what is the weather outside like. Or sometimes, if I’m concerned about needing a jacket, is it cold out.

[@uva98]

True!!!! ¿Cómo está el tiempo? 😂🤣

[@bioalkemisti]

In Finnish we ask "what the clock is" dads will of course answer "mostly plastic and some metal"

[@Mikaci_the_Grand_Duke]

That's interesting, for us Hungarians clock, hour and watch are more or less the same, but" weather" is rather with "time" interchangeable, however only in one direction, so weather can be time, but instead of "time" (as hour and minute) you can't use the word "weather". Moreover, weather is "time-walking" for us. 😉

[@sniperwolf50]

As in Swedish, as you almost certainly already know

[@bioalkemisti]

@@sniperwolf50 I don't speak Swedish at all. Which is kinda weird since I know English, Spanish and French. And some Latin. 😅 I do have to learn Swedish in University now though.

[@RandomGuyofc]

😂😂😂

[@liafrota4312]

In portuguese we ask what hour it is, just like french, because time and weather are the same here

[@basilkearsley2657]

This is soooo true. They’ll turn up 30-40 minutes after the meeting starts then go round the room giving everyone a kiss

[@ranjiththambi]

😂😂

[@marion9809]

Absolutly not

[@basilkearsley2657]

@@marion9809 I am afraid its true. I have been in a meeting where we were explaining how to stop the company from closing, and the senior management team turn up at least 30 minutes late, and not like an English person, just sat at the back, they went round the room giving everyone a kiss, as if they hadn't seen them the day before. It was bizarre

[@marion9809]

@@basilkearsley2657 I'm afraid it's not. Some french might be always late but it's not that common. And I'm french

[@Alceste-Resister]

A kiss ? You mean "la bise" which is a (fake) kiss on each cheek.

[@x_skyy_]

English - OH NO IM LATE FOR MY MEETING!! French (showing up half an hour late) - it’s TOTALLY chill!

[@intensopower9398]

I'm french. Once, an english speaker asked me "what time is it in France". I told him it was quite cloudy. I think he was a bit confused.

[@richard--s]

I guess, his brain was cloudy for a second or two 😅

[@intensopower9398]

@@Gary-bz1rf in french, if you ask the question "quel temps fait-il?", which is literally translated to "what time is it?", You ask what's the weather like. If you want to ask about the time of the day, you ask "quelle heure est-il?", Which literally translates to "what hour is it?" I hope I'm not confusing 😂😂

[@95Bartlett]

@@Gary-bz1rf If I had to make an educated guess it’s due to the fact that the time would have been told by the position of the sun before clocks were used, so there’s an association with the weather and time. As far as I’m aware all of the Romance languages follow the “what’s the time doing?” convention of asking about the weather so I’m assuming it’s origin is in Latin.

[@Repentforthekindomogiah]

​@@95Bartlettthis makes sense like I ACTUALLY get it now bc I was still very confused

[@joshualaryea1335]

A bit??

[@lillithdv8]

Spanish has entered the chat with the same logic

[@samuelmartin8650]

Same with Italian

[@raphaelsemph5852]

same with portuguese

[@Nikki-tx6kh]

Latin Languages ganging up against English

[@atharvaveda87]

Romania has the academic quarter (15 minutes) but the 15’ are more orientation than a strict rule😂

[@Vultursa]

Let’s be honest that’s how us Mediterranean work time is relatif and there always and breaks are important

[@Acutelittlecat]

"If you have a meeting at 7:05, you can show up at 7:45" I wanna live in France

[@motherurck7542]

I don't, that sounds terrible

[@tannercottle4206]

I lived in Paris for a bit, they’re extremely lax - take a two hour lunch with a few beers by the river

[@backtotheblak]

@@tannercottle4206 I am French and I live in Paris and what you say is not true. He draws the line at the clichés about the French. You have to stop looking Emily in Paris 😂

[@nathanwaterser8218]

You are amateurs Here in Mexico you have a meeting at 7:00 and you arrive at 8:45

[@Acutelittlecat]

@@nathanwaterser8218 How much does a flight from Europe to Mexico City cost?

[@Diegottss]

as a Brazilian portuguese speaker, can relate to french 300%

[@marianamb]

sim!!! english is all by itself in this one kkk

[@athormaximoff4634]

As a spanish speaker I was thinking "Ha ha french is so silly" and then realization hit me harder than a truck

[@myri_the_weirdo]

French isekai'd you

[@golden_leader9227]

I would be in the same position if i didn't already think about the same issue years ago, when i first studied french (i'm italian btw) 😂

[@ChickenSplash]

as a Portuguese speaker, I can relate

[@alfrredd]

¿Qué tiempo hace? / ¿Qué hora es? . Funciona igual en la mayoría de lenguas romances.

[@The_real_Blitzwing]

The " What hour is it?" hit me the most since that's what we say in Spanish half of the time

[@SSatyabrata]

Meeting Starts: Lets wait for 5 minutes for others to join when French is part of the Team: Lets wait for 45 minutes..

[@louisrobitaille5810]

Arabs: *comes in 2h late*

[@cielozlight]

Mexicans show up 2 hours late and say they are just "on time"

[@atharvaveda87]

My father comes the next day “I got busy did something important happen?”

[@caroleberreur9585]

I think nowadays it’s only truer in the south. I’m personally never late in work meetings (as for social meetings, then it’s different because it’s actually seems impolite to turn up on time in France). 😅

[@heathertomlinson1961]

​@@caroleberreur9585 Wow. My ADHD would be going bonkers. If I'm not at least 15-20 minutes early for something, then I'll be ridiculously late. So I'm early for pretty much everything. People just casually showing up late would make me want to scream.

[@AyyashAhmad]

In Malay, we ask “How many clocks there are?” And our dads will say, “We only have one at home.”

[@robinharwood5044]

Keep it up, Malay dads.

[@PhoenixInFirestadium]

The frustration at the end: "obviously" 😂😂😂

[@winniedzormo2456]

in quebec we say "y fait tu beau aujourdhui ?" which would be translated by "is it beautiful today ?"

[@gerrybaggins]

Toujours positifs, les Québécois... 😉

[@KiooZaax]

Literally translated it would sound like "is it doing you beautiful today ?" Ahhh, la belle langue française du Québec...

[@marion9167]

It do you beautiful today loool les tournures de phrase québécoise sont imparables 😊

[@vecvan]

so how do you go from temp beau to tu beau? 😅 how's the temp-beau-rat-sure outside? Idk Why don't you rate it yo'self?!?

[@JacktheRah]

Okay that's quite cute. I like that.

[@mikelytou]

French: "you have an appointment at 7:05 and you show up at 7:45 it's chill" German: "Prepare to march for Paris!"

[@gerrybaggins]

French from Alsace: Sometimes we feel closer to Germans than to Frenchs.

[@kentrosaurusboi3909]

​@@gerrybaggins Based Alsatian. The first one I've ever seen say that in a long time.

[@gerrybaggins]

@@kentrosaurusboi3909 Nobody is late to an appointment in Alsace. Even the bosses are on time.

[@jordinagel1184]

Goes to show that international borders aren’t hard stops

[@masterman1001]

@@gerrybaggins to be fair, the alsatians are more like northern swiss people than they are french/german. You even speak Elsässisch, which is an alemannic dialect, like Baseldytsch (basel german)

[@storyteller5931]

In Portuguese we say almost like the French. "What time is" when asking for the weather and "What hours are" when asking for time.

[@dest-official]

Bruh, it’s true….. I’m in France and unfortunately I can wait over an hour to start a party. Like it was planned on 14:00 and they start it on 15:00.😢

[@munjee2]

Who sets a party for 2 ?

[@lasagnasux4934]

​@@munjee2that's the real question

[@patarmanurung4743]

So people in France like to come late just like people in my country.😂

[@quaranfree6584]

Your lucky your not in African

[@lasagnasux4934]

​@@quaranfree6584my French professor was African. Her father worked in the Ivoirien government and said that when they have a holiday on Saturday, the people will just decide to have Friday off to prepare, and then they'll decide to also take Monday off, to recuperate from the holiday weekend.

[@jademonass2954]

in portuguese we say "how is time?" which i find honestly kinda cute in translation

[@danae5578]

Time is great, and you? 😅 Even funnier if the person you're asking is named, Time or Thyme.

[@ademyro]

eu costumo falar “que horas é (isso)” mas achei legal esse jeito de falar.

[@killherqueen]

"qual é hora"? eu digo "que horas são" kkkk

[@maswiyat_i]

It is cute

[@camymj7594]

How is time? - como tá o tempo? and it is so cute, right? I love it too

[@MrMaxride27]

A previous French président has said one day : "Look at the time !" to say that it was sunny outside xD

[@lehbr7330]

That's hilarious!! Who was that?

[@Dolarock]

@@lehbr7330 probably François Hollande, he's for sure the funniest president. He doesn't know how to speak english but still did speeches in english. There's probably some kind of best of of his english on yt

[@lehbr7330]

@@Dolarock Yeah I'm French, I'm familiar^^" I'll look it up thanks

[@stenndart5401]

It was sarkozy the one before Holland to the England Queen, he sure did gave us a good look lol

[@clem1825]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKGzZJiPo8aampo The exact sentence was "Sorry for the time" and it was Sarkozy who said it to Hillary Clinton on the steps of the Elysées when it was raining :)

[@CallMeKatherineYT]

Same in Italian😅 “Che tempo fa?”

[@SebivonFircks]

Actually, in French or spanish, asking for the time when they mean the weather is correct. In anxient days the passing of the time was measured by seasons and weather changing. That was the original way humans realising that times are changing and time is passing. It has its origin in the changing weather

[@theodenking320]

We say the same in italian. To ask for the time, we ask "what hour is it?" and "hour" also implies minutes. So you could answer with something like "12:03". To ask about the weather, we ask "what time does it do?/what time is there?", because time in italian is translated with "tempo", which also means weather (sometimes we specifically say "tempo atmosferico" which means "atmospheric time", "weather")

[@MariaPetrescu]

Let’s not tell them it’s even more messed up 😂 “Che ore sono?” that is “what hours are there?”

[@thepois88]

Exactly the same, how to ask someone what time is: do you have hours? 😂 time also means weather here!

[@larialhonored8816]

that is exactly how it works in portuguese as well

[@siliconsulfide8]

The first part might be similar in Poland, actually! Just that it's something like "which hour?" instead.

[@Thundag01br]

In Brazil we use the exact same logic

[@hussarya3380]

As a Polish native speaker I didn't realize how much common my language has with French xD We also ask "What's hour?" ("Która godzina?") to know what time is it.

[@karapetrov-ic]

Interesting. Your “godzina” looks like the Serbian “godina”. But “godina” doesn’t mean “hour”. It means “year”.

[@LegioX_95]

It works kinda the same in italian, we say "Che ora è?" which translates to "What hour is it?"

[@hussarya3380]

@@karapetrov-ic Well, Serbian and Polish are both slavic languages, so probably there is a lot of words looks very similar. Also, "hour" and "year" are some periods of time, so there is something common.

[@ja4309]

​@@LegioX_95 In Filipino and Bisaya, we just took Spanish expressions but then add more twists. For instance when we ask for time, we use the word "oras" which means time, but it was taken from the Spanish word "horas" which actually means hour Unsay Oras (Bisaya) Anong Oras? (Filipino)

[@user-lf9yi1vk9x]

@@karapetrov-ic in Bulgarian godina also means year. I was quite confused when a polish girl said it would take her "godina" to get ready to go out 😄😄😄 (We were little and each spoke only her own language)

[@choiichanhee_]

“If you know what time it is, you know what time it does” is one of my fav lines on this channel 😂

[@VincentANDAlexander]

From where i live you have to tell the people 2-3 hours ahead of the actual meet up like the time when i invited a few people for a celebration and told them to come at 8... They showed up at 10:37😂 we still celebrated though when they arrived the food that i prepared increased in quantity since i was bored waiting and just ended up cooking more😂😂😂

[@ed_nique7]

"you have an appointment at 7:05 and you show up at 7:45 it's chill" It's chill in Ghana too. We call it Ghana Man Time(GMT). Cos we use GMT.

[@Abshir1it1is]

Lol. Very specific. We just call it African time, here on the east side.

[@toebs_]

@@Abshir1it1isI think it’s only specific in that way to make the joke work. GMT usually means Greenwich Meridian Time.

[@ReigoVassal]

Same like in Indonesia. We have "jam karet" which translate to "rubber hour". Because it can be stretched

[@Annie_Annie__]

When I lived in Florida, I was warned to be aware that the people from the Caribbean (didn’t matter where in the Carib, I guess) tend to be late for appointments or parties and just take things slower because “they’re always on Island Time”. Lol. Now I live in a part of the US that’s on the coast, but not a major city, and people here tend to take things a little slower and are always dressed more casually than other parts of the country. And folks say that we “live on coastal time”.

[@ed_nique7]

@@toebs_ I know😂 that's what makes it funny.

[@Kadagirl777]

Time is DEFINITELY chill in the south of France 🤣 I showed up to my first university course like 5 minutes before class was going to start and the room was COMPLETELY empty. Went to the office to ask if I had the right room, and the secretary just looked at me like, 😒😏 Ah yes, an American and said that "time works differently here" 😭 Sure enough everyone showed up, even the professor was like 10 minutes late 🤣

[@lehbr7330]

Yeah, that's true for the south especially! We can see it in all Europe: Southern countries are more late or chill on time (Greece, Italy, Spain or Portugal) than northern (Germany, Holland, England, Slavic, etc) In Corsica (the French island in the Mediterranean sea) when meeting with friends we rarely bother with minutes it's like in/around this hour 😂 but in Paris you shouldn't be 15 minutes late 😅 it's improper^^"

[@OLBastholm]

​@@lehbr7330 In Denmark it feels like I'm late, even if I'm 2 minutes early for class, when like 80% of people are always 10-15 minutes early

[@lehbr7330]

@@OLBastholm I'm not surprised! It's crazy in France how within a same country, relatively close (like 1 to three hours of car drive) we have different custom! But like in Paris there's the "15 minutes of politeness" (if you're invited that someone's place you show up after 15 minutes so that they have time to finish cooking/getting ready) but if you're 5 minutes (services, doctors, etc) late to an appointment you mess up the social clock and more than 15 minutes late meeting with a friend outside it is really bad because you've made them wait When I started with my life in Paris I had trouble with all those rules! In Corsica if we meet at someone's house we have nearly no hour we kinda just show up in a time period (we don't care if they haven't finish cooking really), if we meet someone outside being 20 minutes late it's okay (it is sunnier and nicer there tho) but to be proper you try and be on time meeting a professional for me it seems so much more logical!!!

[@Reyob]

I'm a southern French but even me I'm shocked with that, most of the time I arrive at class 1-2 minutes early and there literally nobody, as a matter of fact most people show up 3-4 minutes after the class is supposed to start.

[@cheesi]

I feel like spiritually I'm a southern Frenchman. I'm not built for punctual cultures, I need to go live with my people.

[@Terithes]

In Swedish it's often asked like "What is time/clock." So a childish answer may very well be "An invention".

[@FanOfAphmau._.]

We tend to say the time 30 minutes before sometimes, If there was a meeting at 2:30, we would say 2:00, SOMETIMES, and it's when you are talking to another one of us. :)

[@TheKobiDror]

English: "What does time have to do with the weather?" French: "What do you mean?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 priceless

[@diegohumanista]

In Spanish we also use "time" (tiempo) to talk of the weather. And we ask the time saying "qué hora es" (what hour is)

[@io5897]

Also in the news in Spanish they say, "Ya es HORA de hablar del TIEMPO", basically saying "Its TIME to talk about the WEATHER", but if you literally like LITERALLY translate it, it would say "Its the HOUR to talk about the TIME", which makes no freaking sense, but, hey language barriers, am I right?

[@ianlarsen3920]

I've started learning Spanish and got to the point of learning about the weather, so the timing of this video coming up on my feed was pretty spot-on.

[@oliviagomez4200]

I thought it was so ridiculous when i realized it's the same for Spanish 😅😂😂

[@gumarks_]

Spanish literally works like this too. "Tiempo" means both "time" and "weather", but to ask the time we also use "hora" (hour) to refer to the time 😂

[@vicente_7959]

At least in Spanish, I do not know about other romance languages, "time" means many things, one of them is "Duration of things which are subject to change", the weather constantly changes so you can ask for the "weather time", in romance languages, the word order is reversed so it starts with the word "time" and it eventually was shortened to just "time". Because of this possible confusion with "what time is it?", we use time measurements when asking for what time is it (in this aspect, for us, english is not conclusive enough when asking time. Are you asking for eras, decades, years, hours or moments? It heavily depends on context).

[@giovanji7883]

yeah pretty much the same in italian

[@rodrigodias7147]

Pretty much the same in Portuguese as well.

[@patax144]

I my particular dialect of Spanish we don't really use "tiempo" for the weather, we are aware it can mean that, but we prefer to use "clima".

[@jordinagel1184]

@@patax144that’s even more confusing tho, because those two aren’t the same either… Is “cambio del clima” just “a change in the weather” in that accent?

[@josiahjray]

@@patax144 Same in my dialect

[@garretreed9709]

Had to go back as my subliminal caught something. “No I don’t think that’s how that ‘WORKDS’ at all” huh!!

[@racheljensen1823]

German: How late is it? 7 hour 1? *I'm* late! 7:45 French: It's chill lol

[@Lucy-bd9nh]

As an Italian I can relate to this way more than I thought

[@SW74mobile]

French. Everything inexplicable has such a "simple" answer in his mind.😂😂 I love it

[@1Kekz]

I love the part when he said "That's not how that WORKDS at all."

[@viktoriaribai]

This is pretty common, also happens in Hungarian. we ask "How is the time?" for weather and "How much is the time?" for, well, the time.

[@gabrielfrancoaisa96]

In spanish we say what time it does to refer on t'he weather

[@VeLilRockGirl]

Yeah, but we do not use "tiempo" to ask for the time. We use hour, "que hora es?". Isn't that curious? Thank god Spanish didn't show up in this conversation, for Universal's sake.

[@Blullaby]

​@@VeLilRockGirl Spanish would have had French's back 💔! 🤭

[@hlfsir]

In Hungarian as well.

[@maccale]

As a native Spanish speaker, I relate to French 100% this time

[@Lostouille]

It's a latin thing

[@Unknown-Number]

'How many hour is?' is how we ask for time in Hungary.

[@AntiCx_edits]

So French is a bit faster than Indian meet up times we generally meet after one hour of planned meeting time , it's more chill over here😂

[@steveboldt5901]

Normally, I can follow along with these videos. I have never been more lost trying to keep up with this one. French really does make no sense!

[@marion9167]

Easy...the word time is not directly translate here.... but it can be .... i've the time to do lot of things....j'ai le TEMPS de faire pleins de choses....But...what's the weather (or how maybe not sure)..quel TEMPS fait il....like if the weather is à moment of the Day mdr

[@Blullaby]

I'd guess TEMPS and TEMPÉRATURE (temperature) are related to each other etymologically (: and so we kept it to refer to the temperature/ weather... But if it's truly too confusing, you could get away with talking about 'la météo' - it gave meteorological in English, and that's what we call the weather forecast. Example: "T'as vu la météo pour ce weekend ? Il va faire super froid !" (Have you seen the weather predictions for this weekend? It's going to be very cold !)

[@ileana8360]

Sorry to have to tell you that in this case you would have trouble to keep up with most of the slawic languages e.g. Croatian as well. 🤷‍♀️

[@realrembrandt8273]

As a Greek I often use to say "I'm coming when the sun goes down." 😅👍

[@nuhakirmani3396]

Idk if this sounds stupid but can u speak in Greek??😭😭😭😭😭

[@realrembrandt8273]

@@nuhakirmani3396 Sure! 😊 Βεβαίως!

[@abarette_]

"J'arrive(rais) quand le soleil se couche(ra)", I'll come when the sun will lie down (as in to sleep lmao)

[@MattDim]

Actually, "temps" defined both time and weather, my theory is the root word weather is a short for "température", which makes more sense because it's rarely hot when it rains

[@dasilvaolivia6559]

Exactly

[@abarette_]

yeah but their root words are still related, as far back as Latin. temperoo comes from tempus. as does tempestas (giving English tempest and French tempête, the latter being broadly used to mean storm)

[@ryu_saku]

My German instincts would ravage if anyone makes up a meeting and thinks it's ok to come late per default! 😂

[@joseamategarcia9276]

Despite what people think, in Spain we are "German" for work appointments but when you finish your work we become "French" in our private life.

[@karapetrov-ic]

In Serbian it’s the same. “Време” (Vreme) means weather and time. And we even ask what time it IS outside.

[@Ice.muffin]

Shit what the heck, we have the exact same word with those exact meanings too in Romanian O.O. so THAT'S where it comes from omlll!!

[@dazzlebreak4458]

@@Ice.muffin It's the same in Bulgarian; Romanian and Bulgarian actually have some similar vocabulary, even though they belong to different language families.

[@Ice.muffin]

@@dazzlebreak4458 Yeah Ik, it's interesting and intriguing enough, always wondered about it.

[@tintillor]

This also works in Spanish. We ask "How's the time?" For weather and "What hour is it?" For time.

[@iLoVEgOdOfWaR3]

The same thing occurs in Spanish ("qué hora es") and Italian ("che ore sono"). I think is related to their Latin derivation, since they are romance languages

[@SunOS10]

Absolutely the same in Russian: "который час?". Definitely unrelated to Latin )

[@springtwigz]

I made that mistake once in College asking “what time does it make outside?” and was met with a bunch of confused faces. At least one of the guys who had been taking French classes made the connection and corrected me! 😂 I had moved to Michigan fir my dad’s work. I had learned English in school before, but sometimes words come out wrong and I’m known for mixing the languages up at times! 😅 Some people speak “Fren-glish” in Canada where I’m from, but it’s become worse since I’ve been fully bilingual!

[@FancyPeaShooter771]

in Italian is actually like that too, "tempo" means time and weather

[@Nicamon]

We need a sequel of this video with all the Neo-Latin languages teaming up against English on this one!

[@FoxSlyme]

In Russian we also say "который час" (what hour it is), but people still prefer saying "сколько времени" (how much time it is). We still ask about the weather when we want to know about the weather, though.

[@P1x3lMagic]

- How much watch? - Six watch. - MGIMO finished? - Ask!

[@rvoloshchukify]

In Ukraine we ask “which hour is it” and if you ask “what hour is it” it is the same as asking “what kind of hour is it” and snarky people will reply “a difficult one”

[@marcoanghinetti7938]

Just change the label to Italian and it still holds up... We ask "Che tempo fa?" for the weather and "Che ore Sono?" to ask the time

[@Sathrandur]

The Latin word _hora_ means either 'time' or 'hour'. Indeed even in English one occasionally hears questions/statements such as 'what is the hour?' or 'the hour has come'.

[@Morpheux1]

Hora in latin also means Season, Horae = The seasons

[@kocsispetra1625]

Actually, in Hungarian you can also use time for weather, but that's rather because we like to shorten our words. Full word for weather is időjárás, but we just say idő (which also means time).

[@jankec]

In Croatian we say "How is the time" to ask for the weather and "how many hours are there" to ask for the time

[@firdakbarw882]

In Indonesia we simply ask "Is it rainy outside?" Or "is it sunny outside?" Because we only have that two conditions affecting our activities. So the answer is either rain or not. In terms of time, we say "how much time?" instead to implify "what time it is?"

[@AtarahDerek]

You don't have phrases to ask if it's snowing ash from the latest volcanic eruption? If I lived in Indonesia, I would be watching the ash forecast every day.

[@lgandreazzi]

Yeah, as a portuguese speaker, this time I agree with french

[@Tenvalmestr]

As a Breton (well, technically french), I disagree. Even if in my ancestors language we do the same ("amzer" for both time and weather, "eur" when asking for what time is it). At least, in latin languages, it could be because of the ethymology, for the Breton language I still have no clue...

[@BlackBladeSombra]

It's the same in Portuguese 😂 "Tempo" means time aswell as weather

[@demenciatips7498]

In Spanish too! It's "tiempo" for both

[@perladel95]

In Italian too

[@mihai7558]

Same in romanian, "timp" is used for both.

[@laurenking9524]

Waiting decades to have my school French lesson frustration finally feel validated 😅😅😅

[@JamesBond-xx1lv]

That's it, I'm moving to France.

[@kunevv]

the word for time and weather is also the same in Bulgarian - Време. and also we ask "what is the weather" and we have "what hour it is" interesting that it's the exactly same concept.

[@lineikatabs]

айде нашите!

[@user-lf9yi1vk9x]

@@lineikatabs Събрахме се 😁

[@Smartness_itself]

You made a mistake. It is "How many is the hour?", not "What hour it is?".

[@XClACIX]

And here i was thinking i should try and learn french, thanks for reminding me how i always have bad ideas

[@franbowstherapycenter9319]

The hour intervals thing is the BEST thing I’ve heard in my entire life and I wish we did it here in America

[@grace52775]

I always thought that "temps" to ask the weather meant temperature! 😂

[@mr.schloopka1124]

In Czech, we ask "Kolik je hodin?", which translates as "How many hours are there?"

[@PhantomKING113]

I feel like this should, based on the stereotype, be Spanish xd. The language still holds, although asking what hour it is, at least in Spanish, can often be answered with the hour and minutes in multiples of 15, or also words like "almost" (casi) or "passed" (pasadas) (so like it's a bit past the hour specified, so if it's XX:48 it's "menos cuarto pasadas"). "O'clock" is "en punto" (≈on point). It's common to just answer with the minutes if you already know the hours, so like if the bus is meant to come at 9:17 and I'm waiting for it with someone since 9:02, and they ask me the time at 9:14, I just say "Y cuarto casi." ("and a quarter almost", meaning "almost quarter past").

[@JesusAlbertoPinto]

In spanish this works exactly the same, indeed.

[@BioFake1]

We have the same with multiples of 15 in french, the hour intervals thing is a joke ;)

[@bbew2914]

Spanish and French are pretty similar

[@kg7187]

Definitely missed a chance to French and Spanish agree in the video 😂

[@lust4bass]

A Swiss guy working in Italy shows 15 min before every meeting time. His Italian colleagues say to him he cant be that early. It is impolite. - So, I should arrive just right on time, he asks. - Noo, thats rude too. You must arrive late! - Late, uh? - Si, late! We all do... - But how much late? like... 5 minutes late? - Nooo, no... much later! - Ok.....mumbles the Swiss guy.... But I still dont get it.... how much later... exactly? .... - Aaaargh! .... Just be late !

[@johno9507]

Next time I'm late to the doctor, I'll just tell him I'm French.

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

English: "Are you having a good time?"

[@Peter_File69]

What could I replace time with

[@Epintus06]

There is the exact same expression in French x)

[@abarette_]

@@Epintus06 on utiliserait plutôt moment que temps dans ce contexte là

[@ianleoncarmona9722]

In Spanish to ask what time it is we also ask "what hour is it?" And to check on weather we say "how is time?" Y'all never worry about time's feelings smh

[@jal051]

That if we don't ask: Do you have hour?

[@cesarmosquera7204]

"Ya te la sabes"

[@_ilgfyisalemon]

"No, I don't think that's how that WORKDS at all"-English

[@dzastin0713]

That used to be this way in Portuguese too. Tempo for Weather and Time, but we use ''Clima'' for Weather sometimes too.

[@rotoboravtov4354]

"why waste your time on that?" is a really nice touch.

[@Osukaani]

In Spanish is the same hahahaha. There is a bad time outside

[@Shourtz]

Considering that it's still surprising that birds are singing and flowers are blooming

[@sweetlioness3735]

I'm Italian and it's the same here we ask the "time it does" as to ask the "weather" and to ask real time we ask for the hours... But I never thought about it, it always seemed so natural😂😂

[@douglasmartin9321]

Every time I rewatch this short it cracks me up. Being a bilingual person I understand both sides.

[@RayPIANO.]

Same with Spanish.

[@galaxy_mira]

I love french cause of that last reason- they're all so chill and not "everything has to be on time"

[@Erlewyn]

It's a good line in a sketch, but doesn't apply to real life at all ^^

[@Epintus06]

Really depends on where you are. Especially in Paris and some other big cities, people are really busy so they'll not be chill if you come late ^^

[@galaxy_mira]

@@Epintus06 fuck Paris 💀 but a lot of other places they're really chill so like- and even just how nice they are, when here in the Netherlands I say hi to a random stranger they look at me like they could kill my family while in France everyone just says hi to each other

[@galaxy_mira]

@@Erlewyn where do you live to say that? Have you experienced it?-

[@Koshrocreations]

"Qu'est-ce que c'est?" (What it's this?). If you forget 1 of those letters they will act like they don't understand you. They are not chill, like at all 😂 oh and don't forget about their weird verb tenses: J'aime, J'aimai, j'aimairai... etc etc.

[@DionysiosTau]

In my time you could have time for coffee any time and more than one time. 🤪🤪🤪

[@chinese_eggman]

It's the same for the italian 😂 For the time we ask "che ore sono?" But if we want to ask about the weather we instead say "che tempo fa?" (Ore means hours meanwhile tempo is both for the weather and the time, depends on the context)

[@starwolf_2198]

when you “what time is it?” in chinese, it’s “几点了?” (ji dian le) and it directly translates to “which point is it?”

[@amberwingthefairycat]

technically ”~點” can be translated to “hour”, (as in 一點、兩點、三點), so one could make the argument that we ask for time in the same way french does: “What hour is it”

[@starwolf_2198]

@@amberwingthefairycat Well, that’s with the context of it. I’m saying it directly translates into “point”. I’ve never heard of “點/点” directly translating into “hour” before. And idk if i just got what “directly translate” means wrong or something but i’m saying if you translate it word by word. so “三点” directly translate would be translated by doing “三” = ”three” and ”点” = ”point”. Now that i think about, “几点了？” would more likely directly translate to “how many point is it?”

[@amberwingthefairycat]

@@starwolf_2198 Yeah, I agree. I just translated it as ‘hour’ because that’s what French was doing in that video and I found that to be a bit funny.

[@lauwlauw6497]

Well in french there is also "météo" which means wheather, so you can ask someone about the météo if asking about the time bothers you...

[@AuroraSilverFox]

Ahh it's like "how are the times" 😆

[@aladdintrips]

Lol je n 'avais jamais capté ce double emplois 😂

[@emppu1012]

In our language we ask the time like "Paljonko kello on?", which literally translates "How much is the clock?" 😂

[@BodoAmat-uk7qj]

and from what country you are?

[@emppu1012]

@@BodoAmat-uk7qj Finland

[@ABehrooz]

Holy shit. This is like the twentieth thing I see that my language(Persian) has in common with Finnish which is absolutely bonkers in any other language.

[@Miss_Kisa94]

How much? Ehhh I don't know about $20? 😂 Sorry couldn't help it

[@lisaahmari7199]

We French work in hour increments! Such a perfect way to say it and so true!😅😂

[@Everything28208]

"workds" ? 😂😂 Even the English getting stumbled 😅😅

[@NimSprout]

Fr something similar happened to me in spanish class. I grew up speaking spanish but lost some of it due to speaking so much english for public speaking. I started going to spanish class in middle school and my teacher said "Que es la tiempo de hoy" or something like that. To me, it translated to "What time is it today?" But she said it meant "What's the weather for today" because I'm so used to "Tiempo" being "Time"

[@nannanchen4019]

In Chinese, we ask "Ji Dian le?", also means what is the hour. I never took notice of that, how interesting. 😊

[@joshuayoukai4790]

I didn't think of that either. I've been studying Chinese for over a year now XD I didn't put two and two together but no one says, 现在是什么时间？or 现在是什么时候

[@Smartness_itself]

In Bulgarian, the word for time is the same as the word for weather. So, we say "What is the time?" instead of "What is the weather like?" and "How many is the hour?" instead of "What time is it?".

[@vipbaepsae]

the innocent "what do you mean?" killed me 😂😂😂

[@EsterHorbach-it9tb]

Who cares about the minutes? 😂 Hilarious. Wish we had that attitude in my country. ❤