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• Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep, though we also have “Klokken halv 4” which is especially confusing for foreigners

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  • trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t speak the language, but this looks like it would literally translate to something like “half of the fourth hour” which in English we might say as “half past three”. Kind of interesting that we might say “quarter to four” to mean 3:45, but never “half til four” to mean 3:30.

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    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yup, it is just half an hour before, very commonly used here. There’s some other English language (Australian?) where it means the opposite - totally not confusing.

      We also use quarter to/quarter past as well of course

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  • Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Some people from eastern parts of germany go with stuff like “Dreiviertel 3” - three-quarters 3 - 14:45 Uhr.

    A good way of keeping the time-information secret, I am certainly too slow to translate that.

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