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Germans like to reference time relative to the half hour, e.g. "fuenf vor halb drei" for 2:25 or even "zehn vor halb drei" for 2:20, etc. Do other cultures do
by zwieback 9y ago
Germans like to reference time relative to the half hour, e.g. "fuenf vor halb drei" for 2:25 or even "zehn vor halb drei" for 2:20, etc.
Do other cultures do that?
Also, google gets "fuenf vor halb drei" wrong but "fuenf vor halb zwei" correct, it seems pretty random. "Fuenf nach halb eins" is 1:35 instead of 12:35 and "fuenf nach halb drei" is 5:30 instead of 2:35!
- hrydgard 9y agoSwedish does it but only the five before/after half case, not 10. And generally no other number than five actually. Examples: "Fem över halv två (13:35)" or "fem i halv fyra (15:25)".
- vidarh 9y agoNorwegian too. Though other numbers than 5 but rarely more than 5 tends to be acceptable. E.g. "tre på halv fire" (15:27) works, but it's rare to use it to be more precise than with five. If you want to be that precise people are more likely to resort to saying the specific minute of the hour ("tre tjuesju" or "tre syv og tyve"; the latter is "old fashioned" and from Danish but still frequently used), alternatively with 15 instead of 3 if even remotely ambiguous.