VOCABULARY:
sekund second; minut minute; oro hour; ordim half an hour; orqarim quarter of an hour; ido day; nox night; matin morning; mid noon; domid afternoon; ser evening; minox midnight; vek week; vekend week-end; mes month; bimes two month; trimes quarter, three month; sitmes half-year; anyo year; seklo century; milanyo thousand years, millenary.
nun now; oje today; yer yesterday; preyer the day before yesterday; kras tomorrow; dokras the day after tomorrow
sem always; ni never; of often; rare rarely; yo ago; fra within; inye within; fru early; tarde late; sun soon; dep since.
Domin(ko) Sunday; Lundo Monday; Tud Tuesday; Mirko Wednesday; Jov Thursday; Venso Friday; Sab Saturday.
Janar January; Febrar February; Mars March; April April; Mey May; Jun(yo) June; Jul July; Agost August; Septem(bro) September; Oktob(ro) October; Novem(bro) November; Decem(bro) December.
Primaver, Lenso Spring; Zom Summer; Erso, Autumno Autumn; Yem Winter.
tempo time; sizo season; period period; duri to last; pasi to go by, to pass; pas- last; nar- coming, to come; dun while.
| Ka or? | What time is it? |
| Kaore? | At what time? |
| Kaore venor vu? | At what time are you going to come? |
| Mi sor ik a qin. | I’ll be here at 5 (o’clock). |
| Nun tre. | It is now three o’clock. |
| Mi venor fra du oros. | I’ll come within two hours. |
| Sar tarde, sar ja is. | It is late, it is already ten. |
| Sar is min qarim. | It is quarter to ten. |
| Sar is e qarim. | It is quarter past ten. |
| Sar is e dim. | It is half past ten. |
| Sar is min qin. | It is five minutes to ten. |
| Sar is min is. | It is ten minutes to ten. |
| Sar non min duis. | It is twenty minutes to nine. |
| Sar isun e duisqin. | It is 11.25. |
| Sar fas isun e dim. | It is almost half past eleven. |
| Sar sun ot. | It will soon be eight. |
| Sar ja ot min sep. | It is already seven minutes to eight. |
| Mi ik dep sit. | I have been here since six o’clock. |
| Mi arivir yo sit oros. | I arrived six hours ago. |
| Mi ik dep du oros. | I have been here for two hours |
| Kaore depart? | At what time is the departure? |
| Lo ship departar a is exakte. | The ship leaves exactly at ten. |
| Nos sor ik fra orqarim. | We’ll be here in a quarter of an hour. |
| Kan departos ar vu nok inye mes? | How many more departures have you within the month? |
| Nok qar departos: du departos veke. | Four more departures: two departures a week. |
| Mi no par qiti pre un bivek. | I cannot leave before a fortnight. |
| Orore. | Hour by hour. |
| Kelore. | At any time (of the day). |
| Zomoro. Yemoro. | Summer time. Winter time. |
| Tre matine. | Three o’clock in the morning. |
| Qar domide (sere). | Four o’clock in the afternoon (p.m.). |
| Shakore. | Every hour (adv.). |
| Labori ore. | To work by the hour. |
| Etore. | By now; by this time. |
| Shaksaore. | To each his hour. |
| Il atendar sa oro. | He bides his time. |
| Il pagat treisqin frankos ore. | He is paid thirty-five francs an hour. |
| Suplemtempo pagat sitis frankos ore. | Overtime is paid sixty francs an hour. |
| Il astir e arivir justore. | He made haste and arrived at the right time. |
| Isqin Jun a treedim domide lo paxtratal signatir. | On June fifteen, at half past three in the afternoon the treaty of peace was signed. |
| Narzome nos departor Fransye. | Next summer we’ll leave for France. |
| Septembre mi sor Italye. | In September I’ll be in Italy. |
| Mi libar Juna long idos. | I love June’s long days. |
| Mi sor Londonye nartud a is sere. | I’ll be in London next Tuesday at 10 p.m. |
| Mi sir Swisye pasyeme. | I was in Switzerland last winter. |
| Tu kanaja? – Mi isot. | How old are you? – I am eighteen. |
| Mi sun isot. – Mi nonok duis. | I’ll soon be eighteen. – I am not yet twenty. |
| Ma patro ja qinis. | My father is already fifty. |
| Il aspar apene qaris. | He hardly looks forty. |
| Qinanya, sitanya, isanya. | Five, six, ten years old. |
| Qarisanya, qinisanya. | Quadragenarian, quinquagenarian (in his forties, in his fifties). |
| Sitisanya, sepisanya. | Sexagenarian, septuagenarian (in his 60-ies, 70-ies). |
| Otisanya, nonisanya. | Octogenarian, nonagenarian (in his 80-ies, 90-ies)/ |
| Ekanya. | Centenarian. |
| Ekado. | Centenary (anniversary). |
| Qinisado. | Jubilee (50-th birthday), 50-th anniversary. |
| Nasid; anyid; namid. | Birthday; anniversary; Saint’s Day. |
| Pasanye nos celebrir lo qarekado de Shexpir-naso. | Last year we celebrated the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. |
| Naranye nos celebror na nodependo qinisado. | Next year we will celebrate our independence jubilee. |
| Pasanye na granpatro jir ekanya, samanye as ekado del dinastio. | Last year my grandfather became a centenarian, on the centenary year of the dynasty. |
| Lo pov nonisanyin kadir e vunisir grave. | The poor ninety years old woman fell and injured herself badly. |
| Sor l’endo de ta adol, tu sor adulta. | It will be the end of your adolescence, you will be an adult. |
| Isanyel. | Teenager. |