Thread: Random expressions for translation 3

Originally Posted by Antonio1986

As a foreigner I usually ask: Kotoryi chas' seichas?
Is this wrong?

"Который час сейчас?" is grammatically okay, however "сейчас" is redundant.
"Который час?" by itself is the most standard and default way to ask what is the time. But in real conversations you can hardly hear that phrase.
The reason is that there is a polite phrase "Извините пожалуйста, вы не подскажете который час?", as Crocodile have mentioned above.
And when a person does not bother about politeness, he or she usually says something like that: "Сколько сейчас времени?", "Сколько время?", "Время не подскажешь?" and so on.