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Time tool
Tell the time in Nepali
Nepali tells time with four shortcuts — साढे, सवा, बज्न, बजेर — wrapped in a period-of-day prefix. Pick any HH:MM AM/PM and see the whole sentence, with audio.
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Convert any time
Pick an hour, minutes, and AM/PM. See exactly how a Nepali speaker would say it.
Period of day
बिहान(bihana)morningShort form
साढे आठ बजे
saadhe aath baje
half past 8
Full sentence
अहिले बिहानको साढे आठ बजेको छ
Ahile bihanako saadhe aath bajeko chha
It is half past 8 in the morning
Five time patterns
Nepali uses four shortcut phrases plus a generic minute form.
On the hour
तीन बजे
tin baje · 3 o'clock
Quarter past
सवा तीन बजे
sawa tin baje · 3:15 — quarter past 3
Half past
साढे तीन बजे
saadhe tin baje · 3:30 — half past 3
Quarter to
चार बज्न पन्ध्र मिनेट बाँकी
char bajna pandhra minet baaki · 3:45 — quarter to 4
Other minutes
तीन बजेर बयालीस मिनेट
tin bajera bayaalis minet · 3:42 — 3 + 42 minutes
The five periods of the day
Nepali speakers always frame a time with its period. “Eight o'clock” alone is ambiguous; बिहानको आठ बजे (8 a.m.) and रातको आठ बजे (8 p.m.) are not.
बिहान
bihana · 4 a.m. – 11 a.m. · morning
दिउँसो
diuso · 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. · afternoon / midday
साँझ
saanjha · 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. · early evening / dusk
बेलुका
beluka · 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. · evening
राति
raati · 7 p.m. – 4 a.m. · night
Keep going
Time, calendar, and the day-of-week vocabulary — the rest of the “when” toolkit.