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⌚️ 时间 Shíjiān Time

Notes :

When putting this in a sentence, it wouldn’t go at the end like in English. It would go something like this :

我早上吃早饭。[wǒ zǎoshang chī zǎofàn] I eat breakfast in the morning.

Sentence structure :

Subject + time + verb / noun

This works for days as well. A while back I made a chart for days of the week, and months of the year so refer to that if your are struggling to understand

明天早上我吃早饭。[wǒ míngtiān zǎoshang chī zǎofàn] Tomorrow morning, I will eat breakfast

Sentence structure :

Time + subject + verb / noun

Different sentence structure, but essentially means the same thing. It’s a lot like the difference between “I ate breakfast in the morning” and “in the morning, I ate breakfast”.

This second structure tends to be easier for English speakers to understand because it has a very similar structure to English. I would encourage using both equally and not to rely too heavily on one or the other

Also, when telling time, you would go largest to smallest. So 明天 is tomorrow, which is the biggest time unit, and then down to what time of day [早上] and so on. The order is: Year, Month, Day, Time of day, Hour, Minute, Second

There are specific times that you can use the above time names. They aren’t set in stone, but best to follow this guide

凌晨 ：～2am to ～5am

早上 ：～6am to ～8am

上午 ：～9am to ～11pm

中午 : ～12pm to ～1pm

下午 : ～2pm to ～5pm

晚上 ：～6pm to ～11pm

半夜 ：～12am to ～1am

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