7.1 – V kolik hodin? – At what time?
Saying “at what time”
If you want to say “at a certain time”, just put the word v in front of the time. Technically speaking, the time after the preposition v is in the accusative case, though this will practically speaking almost never matter, except in one instance (see below)
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v devět hodin |
ve tři hodiny |
v pět hodin |
ve dvanáct hodin. |
So the only time it would ever change is with jedna hodina. If you want to say at 1:00, you would say v jednu hodinu:
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v jednu hodinu |
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v sedm hodin a čtyřicet pět minut |
V deset hodin a deset minut |
ve čtrnáct hodin a pět minut |
ve dvanáct hodin a třicet minut |
One last note… v or ve?
So you’ve probably noticed that there are both forms v and ve for the word meaning ‘at’. When do you use which? It turns out it’s pretty easy:
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ve |
when the number starts with a difficult cluster:
ve dvě hodiny – at two o’clock ve tři hodiny – at three o’clock ve čtyři hodiny – at four o’clock ve čtrnáct hodin – at fourteen o’clock (i.e. 2 o’clock) |
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v |
everywhere else:
v jednu hodinu – at one o’clock v pět hodin – at five o’clock v osm hodin – at eight o’clock |
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