Archives for: "January 2009"
Который час? Сколько времени? (пять минут шестого)
To the Russian way of thinking, the first hour of the day is made up of the first sixty minutes from midnight to one o'clock (but not including one o'clock). The second hour is from one to just before two. Therefore when saying "It is now 12:01" in… more »
Который час? Сколько времени? (без четверти семь)
To say that it is quarter till the hour you use the word for quarter which is четверть. 1:45 in Russian comes out «без четверти два», literally “without a quarter two.” The preposition без takes the genitive case, and четверть is a feminine third… more »