Marshallese Language Training Manual - Linguistics

TIME-TELLING
Jete awa kiiö?= What time is it now?
how many/hours/now
Jete awa ippam?= What time you got?
how many/hours/with you
There are four simple patterns of responses to the above two
questions. The one used depends on whether the minute hand is:
1.) exactly on the hour
2.) past the hour
3.) exactly on the half hour
4.) before the hour.
Examples are given below:
1.) Juon awa kiiö.= It's now one o'clock.
one/hour/now
2.) Joñoullalem minit jän ruo awa.= It's fifteen past two.
fifteen/minutes/from/two/hours
3.) Jilu jimattan awa kiiö.= It's now three-thirty.
three/half-of/hours/now
4.) Joñoullalem minit ñan emän awa.= It's fifteen 'til four.
fifteen/minutes/to/four/hours
DRILLS
TIME-TELLING
Q. Jete awa kiiö? A. ____ awa kiiö.
Q. Jenaaj m öñä in naat? A. Jenaaj m öñä ilo ___awa.
we-will/eat/in/morning/when we will/eat/at,in /__/hour
raelep
noon
jota
evening
NOTE: Vocabulary and Grammar: Time-telling is covered in more detail in Lesson 6
of Spoken Marshallese.
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