tiempo – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of tiempo

Noun: tiempo
Gender: m Hyphenation: tiem‧po
Singular mtiempo
Plural mtiempos

Sample Sentences

  • No tengo tiempo. (I don't have time. / I haven't got time.)
  • Díceles entonces Jesús: Mi tiempo aun no ha venido; mas vuestro tiempo siempre está presto. (Then Jesus says to them: My time has not yet come; but your time is always ready.) [1909, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia Reina-Valera, Juan 7:6:]
  • ¿Cuánto tiempo hace que vives aquí? (How long have you been living here?)
  • Amiga, ha pasado demasiado tiempo. (Friend, it's been too long.)
  • Hace tiempo que yo no tomaba un buen trago. (It's been a while since I've had a good drink.)
  • El verbo camina está en tiempo presente. (The verb camina is in the present tense.)
  • ¿Qué tiempo hace? (What is the weather like? / How is the weather?)
  • Hace buen tiempo. (The weather is fine.)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tiempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”). Doublet of tempo. Compare both English tempo, temperature. See: Old Spanish Nouns 'tiempo', Old Spanish Nouns 'tiempo', Latin Nouns 'tempus'.

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