Re: Hungarian Time
 

Half past three (3,30) in Hungarian is "Fel negy" meaning half an hour before four o'clock!

Re: Hungarian Time
 

Sachina, sorry - Hungarian logic is different - similar to the Southern German/Austrian.
Fel negy means that halfof the fourth hour has passed.
It gets interesting when you consider quarter hours - and even google knows it!
dreiviertel vier ungarisch gives you:háromnegyed négy
And viertel vier(which is 3.15):
negyed négy

Here's a nice list with examples, sorry only in German, but should be easy to understand:
https://www.langdog.de/abfragen.php?...u#nurmalgucken

Re: Hungarian Time
 

Két perccel múlt háromnegyed négy

= two minutes-by passed three-quarters (of the) four

= 3:47

I didn't make this example up! It's from Carol H. Rounds' excellent Hungarian grammar.

Re: Hungarian Time
 

Watchpost, congratulations! You got it!
Now try this in German:
Drei nach dreiviertel drei ... :thumbsup:

Re: Hungarian Time
 

I'm in the Land of Berg, west of the Lübeck-Saarbrücken line. We do the half thing here (as do the Dutch), but not the quarter/three quarters.

www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/f7_11e.jpg

Re: Hungarian Time
 

Thanks, I hadn't seen this before - really nice!
Is there something similar for British "dialects"?
I've essentially had only contact with Londoners - and a very nice Scot who owned the bookshop "Fantasy Centre" where I went several times a year.
Those were the days ...

Re: Hungarian Time
 

If you Google for dialect atlas Britain or isogloss map Britain you should turn something up. Depends really what you're looking for.