Minutes past the hour means those minutes are added to the hour; "ten past five" means 5:10. Minutes to, 'til and of the hour mean those minutes are subtracted; "ten of five", "ten 'til five", and "ten to five" all mean 4:50. Fifteen minutes is often called a quarter hour, and thirty minutes is often known as a half hour. For example, 5:15 can Since half an hour is thirty minutes, a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. You can use the term quarter along with past and until when telling the time. For example, 7:45 is "a quarter till eight" and 8:15 is "a quarter past/after eight." We will talk more about these words, past and until, later in this article, so keep reading! I'm my 30s it rolled back to about 8-8:30 Since 40 there are maybe 5 days a year I sleep past 7 and never once past 8 unless I'm really sick. Do you live on the equator? In my part of the world never sleeping past 8 means being up well before dawn much of the year. I live in New England. The latest sunrise is about 7:15. 12pm is midday (or noon). 12am is midnight. Midnight on Sunday is during the night between Sunday and Monday, as Joe says. 5 past midnight would either be 12:05am (in the 12-hour clock) or 00:05 (in the 24-hour clock) NOT 25:05. With the 24-hour clock, we start again from 00:00 after 23:59:59. 六分 roppun (6 minutes) 八分 happun (8 minutes) [or often はちふん hachifun] 十分 juppun (10 minutes) [or じっぷん jippun (this is mostly heard in news broadcasts] Next, notice how the 分 "fun" (the minute marker) changes. This may vary by region or dialect, but in standard Japanese, these numbers are affected: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. At minute 30, we say it's "half past". What does half past 9 mean? Like we said, there are 60 minutes in an hour. For example, at 5:45, we say it's "quarter to six" (or 15 minutes before 6:00). At minute 30, we say it's "half past". So at 9:30, we would say it's "half past nine" (or half an hour after 9:00). bFY94DP.

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