{"id":4462,"date":"2012-10-18T01:03:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T01:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2012-10-18T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T01:03:54","slug":"telling-the-time-in-german-around-the-clock-in-5-minute-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/telling-the-time-in-german-around-the-clock-in-5-minute-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the time in German: Around the clock in 5-minute Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The constant reader of this blog might already know that I set myself to make a thoroughly series on Telling the Time in German<\/em><\/strong>. So far, I have explained how to cite full hours and the quarters of an hour (using mechanical clocks), and I explained why we tend to tell the time differently \u2013 depending on which kind of clock we use: mechanical ones or digital ones.<\/p>\n

This time I would like to continue my series with how to tell the time in 5-minute steps<\/em><\/strong>, so to speak. In other words, when you are using a mechanical clock to read the time the major numbers on the clock-face (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) do not only indicate the number of the hour of the day (indicated by the little hand) but also the minutes (indicated by the big hand). The numbers between 1 and 12 are each \u201cfive minutes apart\u201d, that is, it takes fives minutes that the big hand gets from one number to the next one, for example, form number 2 to 3 and 4 to 5.<\/p>\n

In the video below you can listen to how Germans cite these times (naturally spoken language).<\/p>\n

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