Quarter past three means :- fifteen minuets past three o'clock, or 3.15
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∙ 15y agoTime on a clock quarter = quarter of an hour = 60/4 = 15 minutes example, quarter to three = 2:45 quarter past three = 3:45 Also half past two in some countries is referred as half to three.
Quarter to means 15 minutes before the hour; e.g. 5:45 Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour; e.g. 16:15
An hour is 60 minutes and if a quarter has passed after the hour then that means 15 minutes have passed past the hour.
Quarter to 10.
You simply add "et quart" (pronounce [eh kar]) after the hour from which the quarter is past. "et quart" literally means "and a quarter".Hence "a quarter past ten" becomes "dix heures et quart" ("ten hours and a quarter")
Time on a clock quarter = quarter of an hour = 60/4 = 15 minutes example, quarter to three = 2:45 quarter past three = 3:45 Also half past two in some countries is referred as half to three.
Quarter to means 15 minutes before the hour; e.g. 5:45 Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour; e.g. 16:15
No.
quarter past ten means 15 minutes after 10o'clock
A quarter of an hour after 5 o'clock. That is 5:15 [am or pm].
An hour is 60 minutes and if a quarter has passed after the hour then that means 15 minutes have passed past the hour.
It means "quarter past eight".
Quarter to 10.
That means "its quarter past four".
It means it's 6:15
It means a quarter of an hour before the next hour. You may also hear a quarter after (15 minutes after the hour) and half past the hour (30 minutes after the hour).
2:45. "Quarter" here means one quarter of an hour, or 15 minutes. "to" means "before" in this context; if 3:15 were meant, one would say "quarter past three". (This is in US English; Brits are, as always, confusing and sometimes use ambiguous expressions like "half three" to mean 3:30, while in some other languages ... I'm thinking of German in particular ... a phrase translating to "half three" would mean 2:30, which to my mind seems more logical.)