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Everything ok Denmark and France? (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 30 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Danish has essentially managed to shorten "four and a half score" to what would be equivalent to saying "half to fives" in English. So it would be "two and half to fives" if we were to do the same in English. (This is also kinda similar to how the clock is read. 8:30 would be "half to nine" rather than "half past eight", which is used in English.)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    In swedish 8:30 is half nine (halv nio), wonder if that's with spread.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    In catalan it'd be two quarters of nine, usually shortened to quarters of nine (the two, specifically, is implied). You can also add β€œand five” (minutes) and β€œminus five", so 8:20 would be a quarter and five of nine, and 8:40 three quarters minus five of nine. 8:05 would be eight and five, and 8:55 would be nine minus five.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting in NZ we would say half eight; for 8:30. Which when written looks really strange; but it is the shortening of half past eight. But strangely we always say quarter past eight rather than quarter eight.

    8:25 would be eight twenty five.
    8:35 would be twenty five to nine.
    8:45 would be quarter to nine, or more uncommon is just to read out eight forty five.

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