हम कितने बजे मिलेंगे?

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Breakdown of हम कितने बजे मिलेंगे?

• मिलना: to meet
• कितने बजे: at what time?

Questions & Answers about हम कितने बजे मिलेंगे?

Why is the sentence हम कितने बजे मिलेंगे? and not something like हम कब मिलेंगे?

Both are correct, but they ask slightly different things:

• हम कब मिलेंगे? = When will we meet?
  This is broader. The answer could be a day, date, or general time.
• हम कितने बजे मिलेंगे? = At what time will we meet?
  This specifically asks for the clock time.

So कितने बजे is used when you want a time such as तीन बजे (at three o’clock) or साढ़े पाँच बजे (at 5:30).

What does कितने बजे mean literally?

कितने बजे literally means something like how many o’clock.

Breakdown:

• कितने = how many / which number
• बजे = from the verb बजना, which is used for clocks striking or showing a time

In natural English, you would not translate it literally. You would simply say what time or at what time.

This is the normal Hindi way to ask for clock time:

• कितने बजे हैं? = What time is it?
• तुम कितने बजे आओगे? = What time will you come?

Why is it कितने and not कौन से?

Hindi usually uses to ask the time shown by the clock. Even though English says , Hindi often uses the equivalent of here.