Archives for: "January 2009"
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (в половине седьмого)
To the Russian way of thinking, the first hour of the day is the sixty minutes from midnight up to (but not including) one a.m. The second hour is between one and two. Therefore “It starts at 7:30” is literally phrased “It starts at half of the eighth.”… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (в шесть часов)
The phrases "Когда?" and "Во сколько?" and "В котором часу?" can all mean "At what time?" Oddly enough, even though "В котором часу?" asks the question in the locative-prepositional case, the answer usually comes in the form of a time phrase in the… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (в шестом часу)
The simplest way to say at what time something happens in Russian is also the oddest way to the English speaker's mind: by indicating during which hour it occurs. To do so we use the prepositional case after the preposition в. The word час has an… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу?
There are three ways to ask “When?” in Russian if you are referring to the time of day, and they are «Когда?» “When?”, «Во сколько?» “At what time?”, and «В котором часу?» “In which hour?”. «Когда?» is the most common, followed by «Во сколько?» and… more »
Который час? Сколько времени? (без пяти семь)
To say "It is five minutes to two," a Russian literally says "It is now without five two." The word for “without” is без, which is a preposition that governs the genitive case. The "minute" words are often left out, but not necessarily so. When speaking… more »