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[eivindkarlsson]

She forgot 🇸🇯, we are adamant supporters of the Dutch solution.

[daiquiri]

"all of you, straight to jail!" 😂

[thebattle]

When I was learning English, "half past" ALWAYS personally tripped me up. Because here for 7:30 we would say "half 8" but in English it's "half past 7" which felt so unintuitive for a long time. Still kinda does honestly.

[TinaBertelsen]

In Denmark we have to agree with Netherlands 🇳🇱

[ILikeSoup]

The best part in dutch is when we just say "vijf voor" or "vijf voor half", omitting the specific hour and leaving it up to whoever is asking to thelepaticaly guess 😂.

[bobbwc]

In Germany, the standard system relates everything to the full hour and uses quarter, half and three quarters. This comes from the medieval and renaissance times where time could only be communicated by churches.
In the German Empire (Holy Roman Empire), especially in the Saxon Imperial Circle (Sächsischer Reichskreis), churches rang their bell consistently at full hours and then at quarters of the hour using two sets of bells; small bells and big bells. When 15 min of the current hour was up the small bell(s) would ring once. After 2x quarters or half of the hour the "Küster"/"Kirchner"/"Messner" ("sacristan") would ring the small bell twice. After 3x quarters he would ring the small bell 3 times, and if the full hour was up he would ring the small bell 4 times followed by as many strikes of the big bell as full hours of the day have passed.
Example: 10.15 in the morning, 10.30, 10.45 and 11.00 --->
10.15 = "quarter 11" = 1 strike of the small bell
10.30 = "half 11" = 2 strikes of the small bell
10.45 = "three quarter 11" = 3 strikes of the small bell
11.00 = "up 11" = 4 strikes of the small bell + 11 strikes of the big bell.


The secondary form "viertel vor" ("quarter to") and "viertel nach" ("quarter after") did not originate in Germany and was imported from other regions into some areas of Germany.

[heckitsasnek]

I live in the Netherlands, and my boss is Iranian and is learning Dutch. She said "Ahh, you Dutch are so efficient, you start thinking about the next hour 40 minutes before it even starts". And first I was like "Wait What?" But then I realized 7.20 is 'tien voor half acht', which indeed mentions the 8, 40 minutes before it starts.
BTW you're Dutch pronunciation is really good!

[ariquarius]

yeah scandinavia does this too :) never reflected on it before actually!

[Dreymur]

Your Dutch pronunciations actually so good!! Bravo!

[mllux]

I am German, and I libe in east Germany (this is important for this, trust me.)

In "textbook" German, 7:15 would be "viertel nach sieben" (quarter after seven). But in eastern Germany (and southern Germany too, I think), you would say "viertel acht" (quarter 8).

So yeah, German isnt even consistent within itself.

[ricardooliveira]

Portugal also does this, but only for the last half of the hour (for example, 7:45 is eight minus a quarter) 🇵🇹 Excellent video 😊

[NomchipomPlays]

HELL YEAH, NETHERLANDS, TELL HER!!! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[Blackcatsforever]

As a Dutch person, this is accurate. Also very confusing because in English half (number) means half PAST (number). In Dutch half (number) means half BEFORE (number), so the mental maths is always fun :)

Also please do something with how Dutch and German will just smoosh words together. Like a porcupine is a stekelvarken, translation = pricklepig. Or peanut butter is actually peanut cheese cause peanut butter was copyrighted. Love the videos!!

Edit: Apparently its called peanut cheese because you're legally not allowed to call something "butter" if it doesn't have dairy in it. Thanks for correcting me, comments :)

[Pepapig]

Meanwhile, I’m just waiting for her to start figuring out Slavic languages and loose her mind 😂😂😂

[Vazlist]

"Fem i halv åtta", in swedish, is a common and good way to emphasize that it's only 5 minutes left until it's half past 7. "Sju och tjugofem" works too.

[somamukherjee]

Trying to hit the word count for an essay is so true lol 😂😂

[TheDinotruxDudette]

I'm from the Czech republic and we either say 'seven twenty five' or 'five to half eight' so yea, pretty much like the dutch😂

[Meandnotyou]

Poland literally has “siódma dwadzieściapięć”
Which means (word to word): “Seven, Twenty-Five”

[cscs-pxvc]

In Germany, both forms are actually very common. Sometimes even by the same people, depending on their mood. However, the “five to eight” version is mostly used here when stating the current time, for example because someone asked. The “seven o'clock, twenty-five” version is predominantly used when making an appointment.

[E_Mabashi]

I'm Polish and I honestly also say just seven twenty five so maybe that's some other part of Poland and I'm just uncultured lol