"It is twelve a.m. right now."

Translation: 今は午前れい時です。

[Chris113806]

Use of 12 am / pm, whilst matching the japanese 午前 / 午後 , is best avoided. Zero [hour] (零) or less directly, midnight, work a bit better as are more unambiguous

[rm07262017]

Again wondering about rei, what does it mean?

[Kyle.combass]

It means zero, so when referring to time it means zero hour or midnight.

[Shinobusagi]

And it has a pretty cool kanji: 零 ('quietly falling light rain/dew')

[CowThing]

Earlier we learned ゼロ, when should each word for zero be used?

[Perceptive-Lingo]

Just as a heads up, as far as I know, nowhere in the lessons thus far has the character 零 been covered, and it is not a choice to pick from on this question. ゼロ was mentioned during the time lessons, but I suspect this is different from 零.

This needs to be corrected either so that 零 is a choice to pick from, or when you get it wrong, it should instead inform you that れい was the correct choice. I have consistently been missing this question every time I re-work this lesson now because I can never find the correct translation to use from the choices provided. I only figured out what the problem was when I looked at this discussion page.

[niaalist]

Came to say this - I am repeatedly corrected to use 零 when the option isn't presented as available (and hasn't been taught).

[MarcoPoloj7]

What is the proniciation of the sentence?

[QuPsi]

いまはごぜんれいじです

[Orelion]

Ima wa gozen rei desu.

[DABurnside]

Ima wa gozen rei ji desu

[Daedalus87m]

I did omit ha (wa) and it is still correct?!

[saliast]

I omitted wa and got it wrong. Thought if it was time related.. It would be ni.

[Shinobusagi]

今、午前れい時です (without は) would still mean "it is now 12 am (00:00)". Using に on the other hand is normally reserved for "at X o'clock". If you say 今に ("at now") it means "any moment now", which implies you are expecting something to happen very soon.

[Seattle_Scott]

Struggling with this too. I don't think the はis necessary.

[JaimeSincl]

I can't hear «れい» as "rei" in this exercise.

[MarkGould5]

Agreed sounds like dei not rei

[Mike899735]

ne after desu emphasis the statement to right now!