"It is 12 o'clock now."

Translation: 现在十二点。

[MaxCole_15]

When do we use bàn here?

[MicahHeyer]

Can somebody help me understand the grammar here? 在 in previous lessons seems to generally be used as a marker of location translating closely to "is in", but here it seems to indicate time. I'm tempted to read 现在十二点 as now "is" (在) 12:00, but that would seem to use the word differently from how it was used in earlier lessons. Or is 在 not a verb here at all?

[deactivated user]

在 is not a verb here, 现在 means "now"

[Sky_Larme]

Why don't we need "shi4" here?

[NasuSamaruk0]

現在是12點鐘。 is also correct

[Alexsandra882661]

Ugh

[Abdulfawaz1]

Isn't 'bai' meant to signify now?

[Jamesmlay]

Wow, a lot of questions and no answers here.

[MailiMcQua]

Now is in the statement but you dont, in this instance, use the character for now at the end, but it was integral before when saying it was "5:30am now"?

[Death_Sticks]

does “十二点正” work？ because I got it marked wrong.

[FrancescoR369622]

jeez, would it be possible to have some consistency about punctuation? You can skip question marks, commas and whatever, but if you do not write down full stops you're answer is refused. Couldn't it be considered a typo? Is punctuation particularly important in Chinese?

[sadfhrw]

Can I use 最近 instead of 现在?

[haku793]

I don't get it, it's right to say it's 12 o'clock now, but the other case we can't translate with add " o'clock" ???

[SwordFishe1]

why do we not need to put "am" or "pm" like 晚上

[Bini_da_Montanha]

现在一十二点 was marked wrong. why?
please help.