French Makes No Sense: Time

[katharina...]

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

[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.

[Izzmonster]

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

[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

[athormaximoff]

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

[giannifois]

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

[intensopower]

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.

[bioalkemisti]

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

[AyyashAhmad]

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

[lillithdv]

Spanish has entered the chat with the same logic

[SSatyabrata]

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

[Acutelittlecat]

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

[winniedzormo]

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

[jademonass]

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

[x_skyy_]

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

[MrMaxride]

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

[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!"

[basilkearsley]

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

[hussarya]

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.

[theodenking]

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")