Just a minute is einen Augenblick in German.
in a few minutes in German is in ein paar Minuten.
Wir haben funf minuten.
This means that it is ten minutes until the hour.
America = Amerika. The United States is "Vereinigten Staaten" (Fair-eye-nig-ten Shtah-ten). Or you can just say U.S.A.
You can say "It's half past ten" or "It's ten thirty." Both phrases convey the same time, indicating that it is thirty minutes after ten o'clock.
Der Schatten - the shadow dare sha' ten
Dreiundachtzig. Comments: (1) German compound words, in general, are written as a single word, without spaces between the parts. (2) A number that is a multiple of ten plus a number smaller than ten (eighty is eight times ten, then you add three) have the small number first in German. (Drei = three) (und = and) (achtzig = eighty).
Ten minutes is too long ( a time). The sentence Ten minutes are too long means that ten of the minutes are longer than the others.
40 minutes
Guten Abend (pronounced goo ten ar bend)
six heures moins dix.
"il est sept heures moins dix"