"It is twelve a.m. right now."
Translation:今は午前零時です。
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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
When we talk about time, 零 is usually used. 零 is technically onyoni for ゼロ, which is written so in Katakana beacuse the number is a loanword
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.
Came to say this - I am repeatedly corrected to use 零 when the option isn't presented as available (and hasn't been taught).
There is no right answer provided for this translation. Please check and correct it.
On a previous question, for "it is twelve a.m.", I answered 零時です and got it right. So why, now, is it telling me I'm wrong for leaving out the 午前 after 今は? (I answered 今は零時です and got it wrong.)
If time is supposed to come before the topic, then why does 今 come before the time?
