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In Course: Russian A2

Telling Time with Quarters and Minutes

Learn traditional Russian clock time using quarters, minutes past the hour with ordinal genitives, and minutes to the hour with без.

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38 Cards
Lesson#1
In this deck, you will learn how to tell the time using traditional Russian clock expressions. Instead of using digital numbers, Russian speakers describe minutes past the hour, quarters, and minutes to the hour relative to the upcoming hour.
Lesson#2
For minutes one to twenty-nine past the hour, state the number of minutes, followed by the upcoming hour as an ordinal number in the genitive case ending in -ого. For example, 'десять минут третьего' means ten past two, literally ten minutes of the third hour.
Quiz#3
How do you say 'ten past two' in Russian?

десять минут третьего

Quiz#4
Translate into Russian: 'It is five past five.'

Сейчас пять минут шестого

Quiz#5
How do you say 'twenty past seven' in Russian?

двадцать минут восьмого

Lesson#6
To say quarter past, use the word 'четверть' followed by the upcoming hour in the genitive case. Quarter past two is 'четверть третьего', literally a quarter of the third hour.

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