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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 13

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    5, 10, a quarter (never 15), 20, or 25 past 8; intervening minutes like 13 usually become "13 minutes past 8", but it might be just "13 past 8" half (never 30) past 8 (and never "half to 9") 25, 20, a quarter (never 15) , 10 or 5 to 9; intervening minutes are more likely to be "17 to 9" rather than "17 minutes to 9" (the reverse of the first ...

  3. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    In conversational English as spoken in the UK, half past eight (for 8:30) is often reduced to half eight (whereas in the United States half past eight would always be used). But in German halb acht, Dutch half acht, and Swedish halv åtta, all invariably mean 7:30.

  4. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Times of day from :01 to :29 minutes past the hour are commonly pronounced with the words "after" or "past", for example, 10:17 being "seventeen after ten" or "seventeen past ten". :15 minutes is very commonly called "quarter after" or "quarter past" and :30 minutes universally "half past" the current hour, e.g., 4:30, "half past four".

  5. 12-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    For example, 5:15 can be phrased "(a) quarter past five" or "five-fifteen"; 5:30 can be "half past five", "five-thirty" or simply "half five". The time 8:45 may be spoken as "eight forty-five" or "(a) quarter to nine". [19] In older English, it was common for the number 25 to be expressed as "five-and-twenty". [20] In this way the time 8:35 may ...

  6. Date and time notation in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Half past the hour is commonly—especially in spoken Korean—abbreviated as 반 ban, which literally means “half”; for example, 13:30 is either expressed as “ 오후 1시 30분 ” or “ 오후 1시 반 ”. When the time is expressed in the HH:MM:SS notation, the Roman ante/post-meridiem indicators (AM and PM) are also used frequently.

  7. Date and time notation in Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Half two [1:30 am or pm] (note that this is different from the British expression "half two", the latter being short for "half past two", i.e. 2:30) Five (minutes) to half three [2:25 am or pm] Five (minutes) past half four [3:35 am or pm] As indicated, the word for "minutes" is usually left out. The "five to half" and "five past half" phrases ...

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  9. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]