Free Telling Time in Spanish Quiz
This telling time in Spanish quiz asks for the time four ways. You read a clock face or a digital time and type it in words, or you read a time in words and pick the matching clock or type the digits. Every correct form counts, from Spain's las tres menos cuarto to Latin America's un cuarto para las tres, whichever region you've picked. After a miss, a one-line reason gives the rule. It's free and needs no account.
Practice telling time in Spanish
How the Spanish time quiz works
Questions come in four kinds:
- A clock face: type the time in words.
- A digital time (2:45, 2:45 p.m. or 14:45): type it in words.
- A time in words: pick the matching clock of four.
- A time in words: type the digits.
You set the minutes (o'clock, half hours, quarter hours, every five minutes or any minute), the 12-hour or 24-hour clock and the part of the day, as on the worksheets. The Spain / Latin America switch is shared with the telling time in Spanish worksheets, and your choice carries over between the two pages.
Your score runs as you go. Stop shows it with the times you missed, and Practice my mistakes runs those again. Buttons on the screen type á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ, so you don't need a Spanish keyboard. The quiz has no audio. It's for reading and writing the time.
Which answers the quiz accepts
Every correct form counts, whichever region is on. For 2:45 that means son las tres menos cuarto (Spain), es un cuarto para las tres (Latin America) or son las dos y cuarenta y cinco. The quiz also takes faltan diez para las tres for 2:50, y quince and y treinta for quarter and half past, and pasan diez minutos de las ocho for 8:10.
The rules are the same as on the worksheets. Es la una, but son las dos. After half past, Spain takes the next hour and subtracts with menos, while Latin America counts to the next hour with para. Noon is las doce del mediodía or es mediodía, and midnight is las doce de la noche or es medianoche, following the Real Academia Española (RAE). On the 24-hour clock, cuarto and media drop out, so 18:15 is las dieciocho y quince.
Accents count. A missing one is a miss, but the note names the word to fix, as in “Check the accents: veintitrés.” A slip such as son la una gets its own note: “La una is singular: es la una.” After any other miss, a one-line reason gives the rule, for example “After half past, Spain takes the next hour and subtracts the minutes with menos: 2:45 is las tres menos cuarto.” If your answer is a different real time, the note starts with the time you wrote, as in “That reads as 3:45.”
Practice tips
Start with o'clock and half hours, then add quarter hours and the part of the day. Set the switch to the Spanish your course uses. The quiz accepts the other region's forms too. Picking the matching clock checks that you understand a phrase, and typing the words checks that you can write it, which makes the two worth mixing. After Stop, run Practice my mistakes before you close the tab.
For paper practice, the telling time in Spanish worksheets print the same options with an answer key. The Spanish numbers to words converter writes out any number that trips you up, and the Spanish verb conjugation quiz works the same way for verbs. When you're ready for a whole exam, NexaProva has DELE practice papers.
Frequently asked questions
Is the telling time in Spanish quiz free?
Yes. The quiz is free, needs no account and runs in your browser.
What kinds of questions does the Spanish time quiz ask?
There are four. You read a clock face and type the time in words, read a digital time such as 2:45, 2:45 p.m. or 14:45 and type it in words, read a time in words and pick the matching clock of four, or read a time in words and type the digits.
Does the quiz accept answers from both Spain and Latin America?
Yes, whichever region you've picked. For 2:45, son las tres menos cuarto, es un cuarto para las tres and son las dos y cuarenta y cinco all count. The quiz also accepts faltan diez para las tres for 2:50 and pasan diez minutos de las ocho for 8:10.
Do accents count in the Spanish time quiz?
Yes. A missing accent counts as a miss, but the note names the word to fix, as in "Check the accents: veintitrés." Buttons on the screen type á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ, so you don't need a Spanish keyboard.
What happens when I get a time wrong?
A one-line reason gives the rule, such as "After half past, Spain takes the next hour and subtracts the minutes with menos: 2:45 is las tres menos cuarto." If your answer is a different real time, the note starts with the time you wrote, as in "That reads as 3:45."
Can I practice only the times I missed?
Yes. Press Stop to see your score and the times you missed, then choose Practice my mistakes.
Is what I type in the quiz saved anywhere?
No. The quiz runs in your browser, and what you type is never sent anywhere. We count page opens, rounds started and roughly how many answers a round had, never what you type.