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Originally Posted by mbovenka
Dutch has that too: "vijf over half zes" = "five past half six"
And it's the common way of telling time. The rest of those are:
vijf over = five minutes past the whole hour (6:05)
tien over = ten minutes past the whole hour (6:10)
kwart over = 15 minutes past the hour (6:15 would be "kwart over zes", "quarter past six")
tien voor half = 20 minutes past the hour (6:20 would be "10 voor half zeven", "ten-to-half-seven")
This goes on util -.45, which would be "kwart voor", "quarter to" in steps of five minutes.
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Yep,
Exactly the same in Norwegian. I just didn't elaborate.
BTW, is Norwegian "commonly understood" if you were to read it?
I do, to a certain extent, understand the essence of a text in Dutch, though I don't understand spoken Dutch. (It may also be since I speak some German though).