ora

hour

noun OH-rah Common

Also means

now

Usage Note

Ora means both 'hour' as a unit of time and the adverb 'now' (ora capisco = 'now I understand'). As a noun it is feminine: un'ora (note the elision). The idiomatic non vedo l'ora di... means 'I can't wait to...' — literally 'I don't see the hour of'.

Examples

"Ci vediamo tra un'ora."

Natural Translation

See you in an hour.

Literal Translation

We-see-each-other in an hour.

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