The Spanish word for half is media (sounds like may-dia). When used in telling the time to just say half hour one could say media hora. The literal translation to a spanish ear would be "half hour". It is more commonly used like this "dos y media" which means 2:30 or two and half. The word "a" (a half) is never used this way.
To say, 'the cocktail hour', you say, "La hora del cóctel."
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Hora Feliz.
¡Tomás lleva media hora esperando! is a Spanish equivalent of the English phrase "Tomás has been waiting for half an hour!" The exclamation translates literally as "Tomás spends half an hour waiting!" in English. The pronunciation will be "to-MAS SHEY-va MEY-thya O-ra EY-spey-RAN-do" in Uruguayan Spanish.
Una hora y veinte minutos
You say: medio pasado una hora
Half moon in Spanish is medialuna
"The hour" is "la hora".
Half an hour is 30 minutes.
To say, 'the cocktail hour', you say, "La hora del cóctel."
30 past, or before (the hour)
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Hora Feliz.
El Hours
Tres hora
¡Tomás lleva media hora esperando! is a Spanish equivalent of the English phrase "Tomás has been waiting for half an hour!" The exclamation translates literally as "Tomás spends half an hour waiting!" in English. The pronunciation will be "to-MAS SHEY-va MEY-thya O-ra EY-spey-RAN-do" in Uruguayan Spanish.
To express time up to the half hour, you typically state the hour and then the minutes past that hour. For example, if it's 2:15, you would say "It's fifteen minutes past two." If it's 2:30, you would say "It's half past two." For times before the half hour, you can use phrases like "It's ten minutes to three" for 2:50.