Heure
Heure is a French noun meaning hour. It denotes both the duration of time (one hour) and the point on the clock corresponding to a moment in time. It is feminine: une heure; the plural is heures. The term appears in many daily phrases, such as opening hours (les heures d'ouverture) and the time of day (l’heure du jour) as well as in mathematical and scheduling contexts.
Etymology: The word heure comes from Latin hora, through Old French, with cognates in other Romance languages
Usage: To tell time, French normally says Il est X heures, where X is the hour number.
Variations and related terms: French commonly uses a 24-hour clock in writing and official contexts, while spoken
In modern usage, heure remains central to timekeeping, scheduling, and everyday expressions of time in French.