@@Dagrizzb I stopped using a 12 hour clock on my phone when I worked nights. I would wake up and get scared that I was late only to open the curtain and realize that it was 1:00pm instead of 01:00hrs.
We also use the 24-hour clock in Poland. Although we sometimes go with 12-hour version if we feel like it, but that’s mostly for casual talk. If we want to be more official we say 17:45, instead of 5:45.
@@bjarne75 initially they were gonna meet at 6pm cus he said 18 o Clock, but he suggested just say 6 o Clock, and the other person thought he meant 6 in the morning, so basically they have to wake up very early
@@TheFloozie137Bei uns in Bayern ist viertel vor/nach Standard. Und ich streite mich immer mit meinen Großeltern wenn sie 9:15 "viertel zehn" nennen Edit: Natürlich ist mir klar, dass ihr System in anderen Teilen Deutschlands genauso "normal" ist wie meins, bei uns ist aber niemand daran gewöhnt und es verwirrt alle. Warum sollte man von der sounssovielsten Stunde des Tages sprechen, wenn man sich immer an der nächsten "geraden" Zeiteinheit orientiert: 7:40 - zwanzig vor acht 7:45 - viertel vor acht 7:50 - zehn vor acht 7:55 - fünf vor acht 8:00 - acht Uhr 8:05 - fünf nach acht 8:10 - zehn nach acht 8:15 - viertel nach acht 8:20 - zwanzig nach acht 8:25 - fünf vor halb neun 8:30 - halb neun 8:35 - fünf nach halb neun 8:40 - zwanzig vor neun 8:45 - viertel vor neun Selbst wenn die Aussage dann undeutlich gesprochen wurde und jemand einen Teil davon nicht versteht, hört man immerhin direkt die grobe Uhrzeit heraus (aBeR dAnN mAcHt "halb neun" kEiNeN sInN - juckt doch nicht, es ist halt einfach am praktischsten)
That actually happened to me when I did a student exchange. They told me, we had to wake up at half 8 for school and I thought they meant 7:30, which sounded reasonable considering that school in German starts at 8. It was a very confusing morning.
@@nvclasHalf 8 is 4. Where did you do math? But English actually say half PAST 8, but because everyone knows what they mean, they drop the PAST, like any other language that likes to shorten their sentences.
@@Aerowind I actually did, but the joke works because he’s and Englishman in Germany, playing both roles. And he understands the dilemma. And English people say half 8 when they actually mean half past 8. But German people refer to 7:30. And @falsemheimer just shared his story regarding this problem of people having different expressions of how they say time. This guy here @nvclas just made the statement that half 8 definitely means 7:30, when the clip showed how it can be used differently in different languages. So I just made fun of him, as if he takes it literally as half 8, and he wants to be so stringent with meanings, than half 8 is actually 4.
It get's even more confusing here in East Germany. We don't just say half nine but also three-quarter nine instead of quarter to nine (8:45) and quarter nine instead of quarter past eight (8:15). Even West Germans are confused by that let alone foreigners.
@@YamiSuzumeTechnically, it should be 12:00am, followed one minute later by 12:01am. But that would confuse about everyone. Like midnight is 24:00, one minute after midnight is 0:01. I remember a Siemens stove clock which displayed this correctly! But I won't stay up until midnight to check if the current oven still doee it right...
@@tromedlWe say 'and half' in France, like six hour and half. I'm surprised you guys deduce time when it's much easier to add. Taking the unnecessary hard option is so german lol Edit: currently mindblowned I read other comment and it's not substraction but addition from zero. 'half the 9th hour' is a crazy and fun concept lol
the funny thing about liam's characters is that i find their friendship kinda sweet and he does them so well, that you can almost believe they're different people.
@@albertopinoblanco When he says 'why didn't you just say 06.00' he's basically suggesting they meet up at 6 in the morning instead of 6 in the afternoon, as its quite common in german (& many other european countries) to say say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc. about am & instead 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 etc. for pm
I remember once hoping the train would be late as we were outside the platform entrance area as the train was supposed to be departing. I asked the attendant if there was any chance the train would be late, he replied curtly "Nein. The timetable ist korrekt." And sure enough, by the time we were at platform level, we'd missed our train. That was 2 decades ago though, maybe DB is worse now (or allows more passengers the chance to get on board).
For everyone who's confused: For English people "half nine" would be short for "half past nine" while German say it for 8:30, because half of the ninth hour is over.
@@erikarommel Although it's only "military time" for Americans I think, there is actually a difference between proper military time and a 24-hour clock which is the international standard. It would be 18:00, not 1800. A German would say it as "18 Uhr" (18 o'clock) while "1800" would be said as "achtzehnhundert" (eighteenhundred). Also a normal 24-hour clock doesn't start every time with a 0. So 6am would be 0600 (null-sechshundert -/zero-sixhundred) in military time but 6:00 Uhr (six o'clock) for us. Although this makes me wonder, do Americans not even use a 24 hour system on digital clocks? Germans use basically both systems from time to time. Like a normal clock has obviously 12 hours but a digital clock uses 24 hours. And just saying "6 o'clock" can refer to 18 o'clock, it wouldn't be considered wrong, just less clear what you mean.
Same in the Netherlands, it had me late so many times. They also say 10 over half 9 to mean 8:40. Imagine the mental acrobatics you have to do as an Englishman to figure that out (plus you have to translate it from Dutch to English first)
Thank goodness Afrikaners didn't keep that bit. We use the equivalent of twenty to/past the hour. We do still say half 9(meaning half an hour till 9) as the Germans and Dutch do. I like to think we are all just optimists while you Englishmen are pessimists 😂
Fun fact: In Poland we use both 24h and 12h system. And we use both ways to say hours. "W pół do dziewiątej" literally means "half to nine" and it's 8:30, but "dziewiata trzydzieści" literally means "nine thirty" and it's 9:30. I've never relaized it may be confusing.
It is a latin thing as well: He went to the marktet in the ninth hour. And the ninth hour begins at 08:00. So half 9 means: half of the ninth hour is over. 08:30. Good I took latin in school and my grandparents used the half term before- with which they confused my older brother and got mad at him😂 Luyk me could learn from his mistakes.
It’s the same with centuries :) The 16th century is the 1500s. We know this in English; we just do take about the hours of the day like that. We only say the exact time it is.
@@Pr0vidence555 you are not unique with that, it's not unheard of. But what am I supposed to do now? Matthias pissed off to Fußballtraining and I just sitz herum at his place?
@@rachelmclaughlin1491 actually it isn't confusing. People using "viertel/dreiviertel 6" don't mean before nor after 6 (they mean one quarter/three quarters of the sixth hour); people using viertel vor 6 or viertel nach 6 will *always* specify what they mean - instead people actively tell you where they are from by telling the time.
In Chile we use the 24 hrs format at writing (always) and speaking in formal situations. In casual situation we say "6 de la tarde" ("6 of the afternoon" literally, wich sounds weird in english). If you just say "6" it implies 6 am, so I totally relate to the video 😂
@@valberm i know, I understood the skit. My point is, he put in a lot of effort to be punctual (which he archieved when you exclude the miscommunication). The German implied British dude is often late. So he puts in the work, arrives on time (his perspective), but he is still too late (because of the misunderstanding). And that is kind of representative for Germany, because people her are v e r y punctual. So sometimes you arrive somewhere on time, but it still feels a bit late, because everyone was even earlier than you.
Ja, musste auch direkt daran denken, dass Deutsche sich manchmal selbst nicht verständigen können, wenn die einen von viertel/ dreiviertel sprechen und die anderen von viertel nach und viertel vor. :D
@@klamin_original Viertel drei = 14:15 Uhr Dreiviertel drei = 14:45 Uhr Zehn vor halb drei = 14:20 Uhr Zehn vor = 10 min vor der nächstligenden vollen Stunde, manchmal auch einer halben Stunde Fünf nach zwei = 14:05 Uhr Fünf nach = 5 min nach der nächsten liegenden vollen ganzen oder halben Stunde Geschrieben // gesprochen 14:42 Uhr // vierzehn Uhr zweiundvierzig 9:00 Uhr // neun Uhr 12:00 Uhr // Mittag 24:00 Uhr // Mitternacht, "Geisterstunde", "Kühlschrankaudienz"
@@klamin_original In Nordhessen ist Dreiviertel / Viertel irgendwas absolut nicht gängig sondern viertel vor / nach und laut gewissen Karten auch nicht generell in Hessen.
I've been wondering what British people meant by "half nine" for _years_ without figuring it out. It's hard to look up. In the US, we actually include the word "past". It's very useful!
@@ElwoodEBlues Ist mir schon einige Male passiert. Generell aber meistens wenn ich den Zug dadurch verpasst habe, noch nicht aussteigen musste oder ein Anschluss noch nicht da war.
It is funny to me, how actually the clear and not coded way to communicate time is called "military" xD Though with halves most of the languages I know mean "half of the nineth hour" (8:30) when they say "half nine". And I hate everything else (like 10, 15, 20, 40, 45, 50, or whatever) in all languages equally, because it is not even shorter!
In the Netherlands we say this in the same way as Germany… I was so confused when coming to England. Even after having been in England for years, this is something I’ll never really get used to and I will always have to think twice when people say ‘half something’. Imo it makes more sense to mention the hour you’re approaching rather than the one you’ve already passed, but I guess you can make a case for both ways. 😋
US Americans know it as "military time". Of course they say "eighteen hundred" for 18:00 Uhr. Possibly because an hour feels like it has 100 minutes, if you're in the military...
Well, working in the UK it took me a while to realise that the commonly quick spelled "half 6" actually means "half past 6". Skipping the "past" gives it a completely different sense if you're German. On the other hand, "quarter past" or "quarter to" are used in exactly the same way in about 2/3 of Germany, mostly northern and western parts. In other places "quarter" and "3 quarter" of an hr are used which causes frequent confusion even inside Germany.
@@mauer1 Earlier* Since 6 o'clock was the first subject and 18 o'clock was the second "Its" would refer to the first subject and "the other" would refer to the second subject Which means you meant "earlier" not 'later' since 6 is earlier than 18 not later... If you wanted to say "its funny because 18 o'clock is later than 6 o'clock" then thats what you should have written But when you use "it" and "they" and "the" it defaults to the subject order of the original response
@@mauer1 i explained very clearly why you arent You have zero explanation just "im right cuz i said so" like some sorta 5 year old child It is very clear to anyone that could come across this who is correct since the evidence and explanations point towards it. Evidence and argument are much more important than arrogant confidence and being self-centered
@@mauer1 what you said : 6 o'clock is later than 18 o'clock 6 o'clock is 12 hours EARLIER than 18 o'clock within a single day (which is the context since the original context was "when to meet tomorrow" which means both 6 and 18 o'clock are on the same day) So you are factually incorrect 6.00 am comes earlier than 18.00 pm, not later
Warum fangen wir Deutschen eigentlich nicht mit "drittel vor" und "drittel nach" an? Wir haben doch noch Luft nach oben und Zeiten wie x:20 und x:40 Uhr können doch auch ganz brauchbar sein?😁
@@um66440 Du hast das Thema nicht verstanden. Wir haben zu viele Alternativen, nicht zu wenige. oder um es mit deinen Worten zu sagen : Zweidrittel x fehlt.
@@caobita no you dont have to arrive 5 minutes early. nobody cares if you arrive at the exact time or 5 minutes before. that 5 minutes is only for yourself because if you need 5 minutes longer than planned then youre still punctual and dont have to hurry. but the person that you have the appointment with doesnt care if you are 10 or 5 or 3 minutes early... as long as youre punctual.
@@Gotenks-e1l I know that, was just referring to the phrase "fünf Minuten vor der Zeit...." don't take me too seriously. I'm known to be always joking around 😉
Add to that the difference between east and west. "Dreiviertel vier" in east and Viertel vor Vier in west to both be 3:45. But "Viertel vier" is 3:15 in the east, leading to potential confusion, when they agree to meet at "Viertel Eins" and the easterner arrives at 12:15 and the westener at 12:45
Thats not a east/west thing. Even in Bavaria and northern Germany people will understand "drei viertel sieben". My personal experience is that mostly people from the areas along the river Rhine have huge problems with understanding this way of telling the time.
I'm Dutch and we do this too. It's the most confusing thing ever. You don't want to know often I said "half nine" to someone when I was thinking "9:30"
Je nach Region in Deutschland wird "Viertel ;Halb; Dreiviertel" auch schwierig.... Da teilst du am besten die Digital - Zeit mit, also 8:45 statt "dreiviertel neun" 😂
I thought it would be about "Viertel 9 which is 8:15 (but most people get it confused with 9:15) vs. Viertel nach 8" but this was fun as well 😁 The first version is usually used in Eastern German.
I'm getting such a great laugh from these uploads. But I'm hesitating to send to my (wonderful) German friend for fear of him not quite 'getting' it! He does have a sense of humour, but I feel there is definitely a limit!
"Did you take the train?" 😂
Everyone in Germany would accept that as an excuse. 😊
except teachers who tell you to prepare or leave the house earlier :]]
Ja, das ist die einzig wahre Ausrede
@@ocplaylists9604 I was just about to say this...
@@ocplaylists9604yes, they literally want Students To WAKE Up at 6:00 and do Homework Till 22:00
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The way he realizes he says he'll meet him at 6am instead of pm
oh shit, yes! I thought he meant that it's a good idea for ENG Liam to set out 12 hours early to be on time for the 6pm catch-up>.
Bro was about to go through all the stages of grief.
This is why 24 hour clock is best.
No confusion of am or pm
@@Dagrizzb I stopped using a 12 hour clock on my phone when I worked nights. I would wake up and get scared that I was late only to open the curtain and realize that it was 1:00pm instead of 01:00hrs.
@@DarksideSleemo yup.
I can't imagine the shock and then the realization.
Total mind screwer.
Dumped your adrenaline for no reason, hahaha.
"maybe the deutsche bahn is just as confused as you"
_czech railways flashback_
Whats wrong with them?
@@universe7761 huge delays as well
@@PexLis not that huge as in Italy 😁
@@universe7761 lol
Wow!. Where in Europe do railways work on time?
"Too soon?"
"No, it's an hour late."
Funny, but would break character 😅
"Too soon?"
"No. That was hilarious."
@@x3cion meh
@@x3cion with a deadpan face? The joke would be that the German is being completely serious and doesn't understand how to make a joke
But we have to kiss were all leaving town leaving zombies attacks ,,... Buddy
The early bird catches the worm. 😂
@marmite_popsicleMaybe it's a very late worm? A night owl maybe?
@marmite_popsicle I cracked up 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
We also use the 24-hour clock in Poland. Although we sometimes go with 12-hour version if we feel like it, but that’s mostly for casual talk. If we want to be more official we say 17:45, instead of 5:45.
Early worm catches the germ
But the second mouse gets the cheese.
Him realizing he agreed to 6am is gold! 🤣😂🤣
RIP the brother who now has to get up at 4
Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund 👍
At 6 u mean?
@@KingPaul02 no they meet at six why would up they meet at 4?
@@DevelonLP yeah he wouldn't be pünktlich
Zhe early bird catches the worm
Went from 6 pm to 6 am 😭
I know right! That feller's in bad shape
Ze early bird catches ze vorm.
@@kjpmi I'd rather eat spaghetti for lunch anyway. >>:=p
Waitaminute
tf is am pm?
He actually waited for his friend for an hour. How nice of him.
"Wait a minute" 😂😂😂
Den Kommentar hab ich gesucht 😅
OMG he's gonna be waiting for him at 6 in the morning. 😂
@@lindakay9552 i do not see the problem ?
@@bjarne75 initially they were gonna meet at 6pm cus he said 18 o Clock, but he suggested just say 6 o Clock, and the other person thought he meant 6 in the morning, so basically they have to wake up very early
Don’t tell him about “Dreiviertel fünf”. His brain would probably melt.
Yes it's like half. I was also confused as I heard that first time.
Better say "viertel vor"
das sagt man nur im Osten. Normal ist Viertel vor bzw. nach
@@sshreddderr9409korrigiert: das sagt man nur im Westen. Normal ist viertel bzw dreiviertel. (Merkste jetzt wie dumm die "Normal"-Aussage ist?)
@@TheFloozie137Bei uns in Bayern ist viertel vor/nach Standard. Und ich streite mich immer mit meinen Großeltern wenn sie 9:15 "viertel zehn" nennen
Edit: Natürlich ist mir klar, dass ihr System in anderen Teilen Deutschlands genauso "normal" ist wie meins, bei uns ist aber niemand daran gewöhnt und es verwirrt alle. Warum sollte man von der sounssovielsten Stunde des Tages sprechen, wenn man sich immer an der nächsten "geraden" Zeiteinheit orientiert:
7:40 - zwanzig vor acht
7:45 - viertel vor acht
7:50 - zehn vor acht
7:55 - fünf vor acht
8:00 - acht Uhr
8:05 - fünf nach acht
8:10 - zehn nach acht
8:15 - viertel nach acht
8:20 - zwanzig nach acht
8:25 - fünf vor halb neun
8:30 - halb neun
8:35 - fünf nach halb neun
8:40 - zwanzig vor neun
8:45 - viertel vor neun
Selbst wenn die Aussage dann undeutlich gesprochen wurde und jemand einen Teil davon nicht versteht, hört man immerhin direkt die grobe Uhrzeit heraus
(aBeR dAnN mAcHt "halb neun" kEiNeN sInN - juckt doch nicht, es ist halt einfach am praktischsten)
@@2weiteiler Also in Franken ist dreiviertel Standard.
“We meet us again” is excellently underrated
Even better for me is the german thumb representing 1. He understands German culture.
i effing love it!
Yup!
That "HÄÄ??" was one of the most german things I heard from you.
And Im all in for it
This is very enlightening, it must run strong in us. Swiss-German Roots born in USA and I’m just as guilty 😂
That actually happened to me when I did a student exchange. They told me, we had to wake up at half 8 for school and I thought they meant 7:30, which sounded reasonable considering that school in German starts at 8. It was a very confusing morning.
Half 8 is 7:30 😅 so you thought correct
@@nvclaswell OP meant the other way around. OP had to be up at 8:30 but at least they were early ^^
@@nvclasHalf 8 is 4. Where did you do math? But English actually say half PAST 8, but because everyone knows what they mean, they drop the PAST, like any other language that likes to shorten their sentences.
@@GeoPePeTto You literally didn't watch the video did you?
@@Aerowind I actually did, but the joke works because he’s and Englishman in Germany, playing both roles. And he understands the dilemma. And English people say half 8 when they actually mean half past 8. But German people refer to 7:30. And @falsemheimer just shared his story regarding this problem of people having different expressions of how they say time.
This guy here @nvclas just made the statement that half 8 definitely means 7:30, when the clip showed how it can be used differently in different languages. So I just made fun of him, as if he takes it literally as half 8, and he wants to be so stringent with meanings, than half 8 is actually 4.
Why is that “ hallo “ so cute 😂😂😂
No it's disgusting
@@lucyk2634no.it sounds like a parrot robot
It is ! = )
@@lucyk2634 Your comment is lol
It get's even more confusing here in East Germany. We don't just say half nine but also three-quarter nine instead of quarter to nine (8:45) and quarter nine instead of quarter past eight (8:15). Even West Germans are confused by that let alone foreigners.
interestingly, it's exactly how we say it in Russian, I wonder why :)
@@ivankuzin8388must be a socialist thing.
It's gotten me so confused that I just flat out spell the time out nowadays. Probably because I haven't seen an analog clock in like 20 years....
Ironically we dutch do the same thing (to translate: we say kwart voor 10 meaning 9:45 and9:30 means half 10
So a quarter 1 is 12:15?
Liam's revenge: Let's meet at 12 pm
German: ???
12pm to be right before 1pm is so stupid anyway
So true, I never know what 12 pm/am means...
@@YamiSuzumeTechnically, it should be 12:00am, followed one minute later by 12:01am. But that would confuse about everyone.
Like midnight is 24:00, one minute after midnight is 0:01. I remember a Siemens stove clock which displayed this correctly! But I won't stay up until midnight to check if the current oven still doee it right...
@@klausstock8020 I feel like the cool German would. 😏
@@cyan_oxy6734 And even then... Midnight on Saturday or Sunday...
Lol😅 I didn’t know about half 9.. good to hear how different cultures express/perceive time.
We finally solved the code the DB is always late because they follow englishman way of telling time
They frequently manage to still be late even with the English spelling. 😂
oh
my god
that explains a lot lol
@@mer_acle8101too soon
Isn't that the rest of world way? 😂
i wish man that wouldn't be half as bad as it is
As a German living in England this confused me the other way around!
Same. Still does so many years later. 😁
German's head: "bis zu einer vollen Stunde" (viertel, halb, dreiviertel, voll) everyone else's head: "time after hour" (fifteen minutes past, thirty minutes past, forty-five minutes past).
Yeah! Why would anyone say half past. It's so confusing.😂
@@tromedlWe say 'and half' in France, like six hour and half. I'm surprised you guys deduce time when it's much easier to add. Taking the unnecessary hard option is so german lol
Edit: currently mindblowned I read other comment and it's not substraction but addition from zero. 'half the 9th hour' is a crazy and fun concept lol
@@windshippinghey that makes more sense than half past. At least to me lol.
the funny thing about liam's characters is that i find their friendship kinda sweet and he does them so well, that you can almost believe they're different people.
"Wait a minute" - The moment he knew he f***ed up... 😅😂
🙏🏼🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯
Completely screwed 🎉🤣😂
What it means?
@@albertopinoblanco 18 o’clock is military time, and it means 6 PM, but he said 6 AM, so my man was about to be 12 hours late
@@albertopinoblanco When he says 'why didn't you just say 06.00' he's basically suggesting they meet up at 6 in the morning instead of 6 in the afternoon, as its quite common in german (& many other european countries) to say say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc. about am & instead 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 etc. for pm
For those who don't understand: the Deutsche Bahn is ALWAYS late. Like one time I saw a clip where it was 1000 minutes late
dawg wtf that's 2/3 of a day
@@Asparagun ik right i really dont know if its real but considering it oftentimes doesnt come at all it seems realistic
Germans probably consider it late if it’s only 5 minutes behind schedule.
I remember once hoping the train would be late as we were outside the platform entrance area as the train was supposed to be departing. I asked the attendant if there was any chance the train would be late, he replied curtly "Nein. The timetable ist korrekt." And sure enough, by the time we were at platform level, we'd missed our train. That was 2 decades ago though, maybe DB is worse now (or allows more passengers the chance to get on board).
@@johnlacey3857 that is literally what the word late means
You do good job with these videos, and I do love learning a little bit here and there about German culture
Its amazing how you still find ways to make us laugh! Cheers
Immerhin ahnt er es am Ende. :D
Wetten liam würdest sowieso um 4:30 von ihm gweckt werden
The "..., or?" and "hä?" are really authentic 😂
For everyone who's confused: For English people "half nine" would be short for "half past nine" while German say it for 8:30, because half of the ninth hour is over.
That was clear from the video. What I don't get is 18 o'clock not being 6pm.
@@willzander6514 no he took it as suggestion to move the time to 6am
@@willzander6514 18 o clock is 6 pm, that's why just 6 will be 6 am for a German. That's the confusion in the end of the video.
@@erikarommel Although it's only "military time" for Americans I think, there is actually a difference between proper military time and a 24-hour clock which is the international standard. It would be 18:00, not 1800. A German would say it as "18 Uhr" (18 o'clock) while "1800" would be said as "achtzehnhundert" (eighteenhundred). Also a normal 24-hour clock doesn't start every time with a 0. So 6am would be 0600 (null-sechshundert -/zero-sixhundred) in military time but 6:00 Uhr (six o'clock) for us.
Although this makes me wonder, do Americans not even use a 24 hour system on digital clocks? Germans use basically both systems from time to time. Like a normal clock has obviously 12 hours but a digital clock uses 24 hours. And just saying "6 o'clock" can refer to 18 o'clock, it wouldn't be considered wrong, just less clear what you mean.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_ParteiDigital clocks/watches can usually be switched between the medieval "AM/PM"- and the modern "24h"-format.
You're such a good actor. The characters you play are very distinct!
Your videos are perfectly described
“Hallo? Hallo?” 😭😂
I like that "Hä?" 😄
Hä? Chi?
That's truly spot on!
Che?
Same in the Netherlands, it had me late so many times. They also say 10 over half 9 to mean 8:40. Imagine the mental acrobatics you have to do as an Englishman to figure that out (plus you have to translate it from Dutch to English first)
😮 I would be confused too 😂
Nah it is not that hard. We literally tell you "10 minutes after half 9". 08:40
😂 thats the confusing bit! We normally say “twenty to nine”
@@marclineham1615 in some dialects here they say it too.
Thank goodness Afrikaners didn't keep that bit. We use the equivalent of twenty to/past the hour. We do still say half 9(meaning half an hour till 9) as the Germans and Dutch do. I like to think we are all just optimists while you Englishmen are pessimists 😂
The plottwist at the end 😂
Hier in Franken sagen wir zu 7:15 "Viertel Acht", zu 7:30 "Halb Acht" und zu 7:45 "Dreiviertel Acht"
Das hat schon alles System :D
was sagt ihr zu 7:50?
10 vor@@ShookedOne
@@ShookedOne logischerweise muss es fünfsechstel Acht heißen.
Kennt man im Schwäbischen und Badischen ebenso.
Alle aus der DDR sagen das genauso
Fun fact: In Poland we use both 24h and 12h system. And we use both ways to say hours. "W pół do dziewiątej" literally means "half to nine" and it's 8:30, but "dziewiata trzydzieści" literally means "nine thirty" and it's 9:30. I've never relaized it may be confusing.
It is a latin thing as well: He went to the marktet in the ninth hour. And the ninth hour begins at 08:00.
So half 9 means: half of the ninth hour is over.
08:30.
Good I took latin in school and my grandparents used the half term before- with which they confused my older brother and got mad at him😂
Luyk me could learn from his mistakes.
Reminds me of that IT thing where some start counting with 0 and others start counting with 1.
Or do they all start counting at 0? Idk.
@@tepes578Yeah, in CS we start indexing from 0. A list of 15 elements will be indexed 0 to 14.
It’s the same with centuries :) The 16th century is the 1500s. We know this in English; we just do take about the hours of the day like that. We only say the exact time it is.
Aha !! Now I understand 😌. As an Indian , could not follow this logic until you explained it so well. 😅 Thanks
Same in Russian, but very young people can't comprehend in, so it makes it even funnier😂
I failed a duolingo lesson because of this exact issue
These shorts are genuine gold funny.
Did he just leave his mate alone at his place?
Good question. We'll send an average Rentner to investigative the case.
@@k.r.99Now, did the Rentner open his window finally? 20mins should be enough to get a result. Time is money.
I thought they are roommates
He trusts British idiot, they are bros and bros can be trusted.
@@Pr0vidence555 you are not unique with that, it's not unheard of. But what am I supposed to do now? Matthias pissed off to Fußballtraining and I just sitz herum at his place?
Deine Filme sind großartig. Alle. Dieser hier auch. Und wie du das "Hä?" aussprichst. 😂 Perfekt!
In Dutch we would also say 'half nine' (half negen) when we mean 08:30. Explaining this system to foreigners made my hair go grey.
"Let's meet at half 9, or?"
Your Denglish is so damn perfect, I bet you almost don't have an accent anymore.
Denglish? Wouldn't that be English mixed with Danish?
@@PiousMoltar It’s Deutsch+English
That Hä? sounds so cute
DaS hEißT nIcHt HÄäÄäÄä, dAs HeIßT "Wie bitte?" !!!
He actually nailed the Hä
Genuine german ha
WeniGstenS hAt hiEr eIneR ManIerEn!!!
omg hahahah this moody facial expression with always the same low mood so accurate😂😂😂😂 and Deutsche Bahn joke was funny
That
“Hallo”
“Hallo…”
Got me😂
Meet at quarter six. 😎 That may even confuse Germans, depending on the region.
Not really. It's 5:15 - The only confusing thing there would be if you mean morning or evening.
@@Stinkehundthey never specified if it's a quarter TO six or a quarter PAST six, so yea it's confusing
@@rachelmclaughlin1491 actually it isn't confusing. People using "viertel/dreiviertel 6" don't mean before nor after 6 (they mean one quarter/three quarters of the sixth hour); people using viertel vor 6 or viertel nach 6 will *always* specify what they mean - instead people actively tell you where they are from by telling the time.
@@patrickspendrin3107 wrong. Dreiviertel 6 is 5:45
@@Zonenkind84that's what they said. The sixth hour starts at 5.
In Chile we use the 24 hrs format at writing (always) and speaking in formal situations. In casual situation we say "6 de la tarde" ("6 of the afternoon" literally, wich sounds weird in english). If you just say "6" it implies 6 am, so I totally relate to the video 😂
These sketches don't get boring. 😄
So, he was on time and still late.
Welcome to Germany! 😂
No, he was one hour late.
@@valberm i know, I understood the skit.
My point is, he put in a lot of effort to be punctual (which he archieved when you exclude the miscommunication).
The German implied British dude is often late.
So he puts in the work, arrives on time (his perspective), but he is still too late (because of the misunderstanding).
And that is kind of representative for Germany, because people her are v e r y punctual. So sometimes you arrive somewhere on time, but it still feels a bit late, because everyone was even earlier than you.
Yep, it's Same thing I have with my Afrikaner friends🤣🤣
Jetzt noch dreiviertel 8🤣🤣 und 7.45. also Ost und West Zeiten
Viertel vor acht😊
Ja, musste auch direkt daran denken, dass Deutsche sich manchmal selbst nicht verständigen können, wenn die einen von viertel/ dreiviertel sprechen und die anderen von viertel nach und viertel vor. :D
Hä? Als ob Dreiviertel nur im Osten so wäre, in ganz Süddeutschland inklusive Hessen sagt man Dreiviertel
@@klamin_original
Viertel drei = 14:15 Uhr
Dreiviertel drei = 14:45 Uhr
Zehn vor halb drei = 14:20 Uhr
Zehn vor = 10 min vor der nächstligenden vollen Stunde, manchmal auch einer halben Stunde
Fünf nach zwei = 14:05 Uhr
Fünf nach = 5 min nach der nächsten liegenden vollen ganzen oder halben Stunde
Geschrieben // gesprochen
14:42 Uhr // vierzehn Uhr zweiundvierzig
9:00 Uhr // neun Uhr
12:00 Uhr // Mittag
24:00 Uhr // Mitternacht, "Geisterstunde", "Kühlschrankaudienz"
@@klamin_original In Nordhessen ist Dreiviertel / Viertel irgendwas absolut nicht gängig sondern viertel vor / nach und laut gewissen Karten auch nicht generell in Hessen.
😂 👈my Face at every Short from you! Love your Content, welcome to Germany and keep it up!
I've been wondering what British people meant by "half nine" for _years_ without figuring it out. It's hard to look up. In the US, we actually include the word "past". It's very useful!
Deutsche Bahn-Witze: too soon? 😅 Ich kann nich' mehr!
Klar kann man mit der Deutschen Bahn zu früh kommen ... wenn man in den falschen Zug eingestiegen ist😊
@@ElwoodEBlues Ist mir schon einige Male passiert. Generell aber meistens wenn ich den Zug dadurch verpasst habe, noch nicht aussteigen musste oder ein Anschluss noch nicht da war.
I love the german guy's "hä?"
We also do this in Denmark and I hate it. I always ask the person I'm making an appointment to state it in military time just to clarify.
It is funny to me, how actually the clear and not coded way to communicate time is called "military" xD
Though with halves most of the languages I know mean "half of the nineth hour" (8:30) when they say "half nine". And I hate everything else (like 10, 15, 20, 40, 45, 50, or whatever) in all languages equally, because it is not even shorter!
wie ich immer gehofft habe das den spruch nen lehrer macht damit ich antworten kann "Der späte wurm entkommt dem vogel"
The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese.
Jetzt muss der gute Engländer halt sich um 6 Uhr Morgens treffen und nicht um 6 Uhr morgen. ;-)
*morgens
@@filmnobelpreis*Film-Nobel-preis
@@El_Fling*Christian Feuer-Sanger
Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund
Hab paar Sekunden gebraucht bis ichs gecheckt hab😅
I’m planning to move to Germany next year for studies, this reel might save my life.
Bro thats so true💀 Its the Same in the Netherlands😅
Managed to casually slip in a "In Germany, we don't say..." 😂 💕
I love you Germany my dear family and friends ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i had same problems when i was in London :)
Wenigstens sagen wir Süddeutschen das richtig..
Viertel halb dreiviertel ganz
Das Glas füllt sich also.😊
Eigentlich ganz einfach. Aber in gewissen Regionen Deutschlands kann man damit einen Krieg anzetteln. 😂
In the Netherlands we say this in the same way as Germany… I was so confused when coming to England. Even after having been in England for years, this is something I’ll never really get used to and I will always have to think twice when people say ‘half something’. Imo it makes more sense to mention the hour you’re approaching rather than the one you’ve already passed, but I guess you can make a case for both ways. 😋
Thanks for drinking that hot drink, i just remembered that i forgot mine in the microwave😂
So true! I have been in Germany for 17 years and still have to calculate times in my head to be sure
Why? A day has 24 hours, not 12. Just count the hours of the day from 0 to 24. :)
US Americans know it as "military time". Of course they say "eighteen hundred" for 18:00 Uhr. Possibly because an hour feels like it has 100 minutes, if you're in the military...
@@klausstock8020 or (wild guess) because they just tell you the time without the ":" so 1800 = eightteenhundred :S
Well, working in the UK it took me a while to realise that the commonly quick spelled "half 6" actually means "half past 6". Skipping the "past" gives it a completely different sense if you're German. On the other hand, "quarter past" or "quarter to" are used in exactly the same way in about 2/3 of Germany, mostly northern and western parts. In other places "quarter" and "3 quarter" of an hr are used which causes frequent confusion even inside Germany.
Same in sweden, "Halv nio" half 9. :D 8:30
It actually means half of the 9th hour just like "viertel 9" (= quarter 9) means a quarter of the 9th hour = 08:15
"Wait a Minute" - realising that 6 o´clock means 6 o´clock (in ze morning) and not 18 o´clock.
"The early bird catches the worm" :D
which is funny because its later than the other time.
@@mauer1 Earlier*
Since 6 o'clock was the first subject and 18 o'clock was the second
"Its" would refer to the first subject and "the other" would refer to the second subject
Which means you meant "earlier" not 'later' since 6 is earlier than 18 not later...
If you wanted to say "its funny because 18 o'clock is later than 6 o'clock" then thats what you should have written
But when you use "it" and "they" and "the" it defaults to the subject order of the original response
@@OryXity all of that not to understand that I am right and not you lol
@@mauer1 i explained very clearly why you arent
You have zero explanation just "im right cuz i said so" like some sorta 5 year old child
It is very clear to anyone that could come across this who is correct since the evidence and explanations point towards it.
Evidence and argument are much more important than arrogant confidence and being self-centered
@@mauer1 what you said : 6 o'clock is later than 18 o'clock
6 o'clock is 12 hours EARLIER than 18 o'clock within a single day (which is the context since the original context was "when to meet tomorrow" which means both 6 and 18 o'clock are on the same day)
So you are factually incorrect
6.00 am comes earlier than 18.00 pm, not later
Same thing in Indonesia. Half 9 is 8:30
Jetzt musst du nur noch „Viertel 8“, „Dreiviertel 8“ und „Viertel vor 9“ lernen und dann hast es fast geschafft! 😂🎉
Warum fangen wir Deutschen eigentlich nicht mit "drittel vor" und "drittel nach" an? Wir haben doch noch Luft nach oben und Zeiten wie x:20 und x:40 Uhr können doch auch ganz brauchbar sein?😁
@@um66440nach meinem Geschmack sollte das z.b. Drittelzehn oder Zweidrittelzehn heißen. "Drittel nach" ist außerhalb des Systems.
@@um66440 Du hast das Thema nicht verstanden. Wir haben zu viele Alternativen, nicht zu wenige.
oder um es mit deinen Worten zu sagen : Zweidrittel x fehlt.
@@holger_p Meine Idee war nicht ganz ernst gemeint, Holger. Es ist alles gut.😉
Das "Hä" hat mich gekillt 😂
Brilliant 👏
You have to respect his integration attempt though, he was there at exactly the time he thought would be correct, not a minute too early or too late.
He should have arrived 5 mintutes early 😉
@@caobita no you dont have to arrive 5 minutes early. nobody cares if you arrive at the exact time or 5 minutes before. that 5 minutes is only for yourself because if you need 5 minutes longer than planned then youre still punctual and dont have to hurry. but the person that you have the appointment with doesnt care if you are 10 or 5 or 3 minutes early... as long as youre punctual.
@@Gotenks-e1l I know that, was just referring to the phrase "fünf Minuten vor der Zeit...." don't take me too seriously. I'm known to be always joking around 😉
That realisation 😂😂😂
CLEARLY...
The early bird catches the worm... HAHAHA
6 am 6 pm 😂
am = am morgen
pm = past middach
So hab ich mir das immer gemerkt😅
@@Florian-Kaiser Ich auch oder pm puh 😮💨 Mittag
Most people just say early or late. Morning or evening. Only when you write it down you write am or pm, or military style like 6:00 and 18:00.
@@GeoPePeTtoin SEA, people will just say eight thirty am, so that nobody gets confused.
I love german Liam! 😅😂❤
That 6pm turned into 6am 😂
Add to that the difference between east and west. "Dreiviertel vier" in east and Viertel vor Vier in west to both be 3:45. But "Viertel vier" is 3:15 in the east, leading to potential confusion, when they agree to meet at "Viertel Eins" and the easterner arrives at 12:15 and the westener at 12:45
Thats not a east/west thing. Even in Bavaria and northern Germany people will understand "drei viertel sieben". My personal experience is that mostly people from the areas along the river Rhine have huge problems with understanding this way of telling the time.
Ich lebte in Deutschland für fünf Jahren und these posts are so relatable, lol
Military time is the only time worth using in era of digital watches
I'm Dutch and we do this too. It's the most confusing thing ever. You don't want to know often I said "half nine" to someone when I was thinking "9:30"
I have literally had this conversation more than once! So this is very relatable 😅
Maybe the deutsche Bahn is as confused as you 😂
Eat Quote I ever heard
Just wait until you go to east germany. They are crazy with their time😂
Dreiviertel 8 🤯
Oder nach Baden-Württemberg, den Norden Bayerns oder den Süden Österreichs 😉
Einfach ne gleichung lösen um zu wissen wann man da sein muss 😂
And that's why I speak 24 hour clock.
@liamcarps can't wait for the adventures of DREIVIERTEL
Je nach Region in Deutschland wird "Viertel ;Halb; Dreiviertel" auch schwierig.... Da teilst du am besten die Digital - Zeit mit, also 8:45 statt "dreiviertel neun" 😂
Mais lollll c est la première fois que je rigole autant !! J ai trop aimé le super au matin les oiseaux 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
That final realisation " wait a minute " got me roollliiiinng😂😂
I thought it would be about "Viertel 9 which is 8:15 (but most people get it confused with 9:15) vs. Viertel nach 8" but this was fun as well 😁 The first version is usually used in Eastern German.
I'm getting such a great laugh from these uploads. But I'm hesitating to send to my (wonderful) German friend for fear of him not quite 'getting' it! He does have a sense of humour, but I feel there is definitely a limit!
Omg this is the funniest one out of all your videos, LOL I'm dying 🤣
That makes so much sense I love that
It is confusing but it kinda makes sense
In Russia we also say “half nine” means 8:30