Time in the First Half Hour

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@pitangueiro4054 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your excellent work! It is so valuable for Russian learners from all over the world. Please promise to never stop your Russian Grammar channel!

@russiangrammar 8 жыл бұрын

Пожалуйста! :)

@Phryzzle 8 жыл бұрын

That "moving-forward-thing" is also similar in German. 01:15 can be "viertel 2" (like "quarter 2") 01:30 can be "halb 2" (like "half 2") 01:45 can be "dreiviertel 2" (like "three quarters 2") But unfortunately many Germans don't (want to) know these versions, although these are so simple... -.-

@sapientiayu5597 4 жыл бұрын

1:45 for Ten past two we say 两点十分，分 cannot be missing. Tricky thing is that if it is eleven past two, we say 两点十一。Even if with 分 or without it are both grammatically correct. Chinese focuses on syllable symmetry (sorry I am not sure the term, all I know is Chinese is syllable-based）. 两点 has two syllables, so the following needs to be matching in rhythm ：）

@i-see-sharp 2 жыл бұрын

Also you can't say 二点 but you have to say 两点, just to point it out explicitly :)

@Afdch 8 жыл бұрын

Though russian accepts time format like "два пятнадцать" for 2:15 too. I am not sure which format is used more frequently even. They are used as much, I believe.

@russiangrammar 8 жыл бұрын

That's right. Forms like два пятнадцать (2:15) are so easy for English speakers that I've been concerned that they could be used as a crutch; that's why I've always been sure to teach the четверть третьего construction too - anyone who's serious about Russian should really be comfortable with both.

@Chagov 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing! you're the best on youtube teaching Russian! : D Thanks so much for this info. Good job))

@robert_wigh 8 жыл бұрын

Огромное спасибо, Кёртис! I have been wondering this for so long now and you can’t imagine how happy I’m right now, now that I have gotten an explanation! I can’t wait for part two, although I think I already know how to tell the time after the first half hours. (by using the next our expressed in a cardinal number + без + the number if minutes to the next hour, in the genietive case: сейчас восемь без семнадцати минут). Thank you! Спасибо большое вам!

@russiangrammar 8 жыл бұрын

You're almost there - 7:43 = без семнадцати восемь, with the hour coming last (word order is usually flexible in Russian, but not here). The next video will cover time in the 2nd half hour.

@perloofficial 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your videos! You are helping me a lot in learning russian language

@OmarMahmoudov 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Can't wait till I watch the second half hour.))

@jakethesnake95 4 ай бұрын

Is минут required, or can it be dropped? For example, could one say пять первого for 12:05?

@russiangrammar 4 ай бұрын

I've heard it dropped, but my sense is that it's more common to include минута/минуты/минут in the first half hour; for десять (минут) девятого, the Russian National Corpus had more examples with, than without. In the second half hour I think it's more common not to say минут.

@jeffm9227 Жыл бұрын

I've heard this approach isn't very common any more. More common to say it's "8:17" or "4:10". Is that true? Any correlation with the age of the speaker?

@russiangrammar Жыл бұрын

You can hear both; I don't have statistics on which is more common, or a breakdown by age. For what it's worth, a new textbook in the US (Этажи) gives only the десять минут пятого construction; this website (learnrussian.by/kotoryj-chas-ili-kak-govorit-o-vremeni-na-russkom-2/) gives both.