Sign for TIME in ASL | ASL Dictionary

How do you sign “Time” in ASL?

TIME: TIME in American Sign Language (ASL) names the thing nobody has enough of. More than one form of the sign is in use, and every variation is shown on this page. The video and animated demonstration below show the sign.

ASL sign for time (primary form) — animated demonstration

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TIME — variant 2

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When do you use the sign TIME?

TIME asks what time it is, laments where the day went, and schedules everything in between. It anchors the clock-and-calendar vocabulary of Lesson 31, where DAY and the weekdays gather around it.

Lesson 31 of the challenge teaches it in the time set.

📖 TIME is taught in Lesson 31 of ASL 101: Starting Out — Book 1 of the 216-Day Challenge →




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