If you have ever wondered how to say the actual time in Tamil? Conveying the actual time is dependent on learning the Tamil numbers along with certain rules that expresses hours, minutes and seconds in Tamil. This is one of the basic learning as it would be used to indicate the timing of the event.
Below listed are examples that will help you to express the time in Tamil using the subsequent phrases for:
| English Names | Tamil Names |
| Now | Ippo |
| Later | Piragu |
| before | munnaal |
| after | pinnaal |
| morning | kaalai |
| afternoon | mathiyaanam |
| evening | maalai |
| night | iravu or raatthiri |
| minutes | nimidam |
| hour | mani |
| days | naal |
| weeks | vaaram |
| months | maatham |
| years | varudam |
| today | indru |
| yesterday | nedru |
| tomorrow | naalai |
| this week | inda vaaram |
| next week | athutha vaaram |
| last week | pona vaaram |
| Sunday | nyaayiru kizhamai |
| Monday | thingGal kizhamai |
| Tuesday | sevvaai kizhamai |
| Wednesday | budhan kizhamai |
| Thursday | vyaalan kizhamai |
| Friday | velli kizhamai |
| Saturday | sani kizhamai |
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