Uhr

Uhr <-, -en> [u:ɐ̭] f

1) (Instrument zur Zeitanzeige) clock, timepiece (form)

die \Uhr in der Küche the clock in the kitchen, the kitchen clock; (Armband\Uhr) watch;

nach jds \Uhr by sb's watch;

auf die \Uhr sehen to look at the clock/one's watch;

die \Uhren [auf Sommer-/Winterzeit] umstellen to set the clock/one's watch [to summer/winter time];

diese \Uhr geht nach/vor this watch is slow/fast; (allgemein) this watch loses/gains time;

jds \Uhr geht nach dem Mond (fam) sb's watch can't tell the time [or (fam) is way out];

jds innere \Uhr sb's biological clock;

rund um die \Uhr round the clock, 24 hours a day;

gegen die \Uhr against time

2) (Zeitangabe) o'clock;

7 \Uhr 7 o'clock [in the morning], 7 am [or a.m.]; mil O seven hundred [or written 0700] hours;

15 \Uhr 3 o'clock [in the afternoon], 3 pm [or p.m.]; mil fifteen hundred [or written 1500] hours;

9 \Uhr 15 quarter past nine [in the morning/evening], nine fifteen [or written, 9.15] [am/pm] 15 minutes past 9 [in the morning/evening] (form)

7 \Uhr 30 half past 7 [in the morning/evening], seven thirty [or written 7:30] [am/pm];

8 \Uhr 23 23 minutes past 8 [in the morning/evening], eight twenty-three [am/pm] (form)

10 \Uhr früh [o morgens] /abends/nachts ten [o'clock] in the morning/in the evening/at night;

wie viel \Uhr ist es?;

wie viel \Uhr haben wir what time is it?;

um wie viel \Uhr? [at] what time?;

um 10 \Uhr at ten [o'clock] [in the morning/evening]

WENDUNGEN:

jds \Uhr ist abgelaufen (geh) the sands of time have run out for sb (form) (liter)