How do you sign “Late” in ASL?
LATE: LATE in American Sign Language (ASL) describes losing to the clock, and it also carries not yet. The video and GIF below demonstrate the sign.


When do you use the sign LATE?
LATE excuses traffic, buses, and alarm clocks that definitely went off. The same sign means not yet in answers, as in have you eaten, not yet, which makes it double duty vocabulary.
Lesson 40 of the challenge covers it in Book 2.
📖 LATE is taught in Lesson 40 of ASL 102: Building Conversations — Book 2 of the 216-Day Challenge →

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