"Je čtvrt na dvě."

Translation: It is a quarter past one.

[Alun612958]

So it's a quarter of two, or a quarter of the way to two? Makes sense. Just a different way of looking at things. Same as the German halb zwei, half of two for half past one.

[Axel591520]

Yes, that's true. But the analogy goes even further. In a broad corridor of Germany, reaching from the Southwest to the Northeast, it is very common to say: "Viertel zwei" (literally "quarter two") for " a quarter past one" and "Dreiviertel zwei" (literally "three quarters two") for a "quarter to two".

[Pedro_42]

Oh, "a quarter of the way to two" makes so much sense! That translation should be in the "Tips and Notes" section, along with its English equivalent "a quarter past one".

[Nina722080]

I'm silesian. My gradma used to say "Je ćwierć na drugo". It's nice to know this manner of telling the hour comes from Czech <3

[Caprice1510]

It says the answer is quarter past one, but doesn't Dve mean two?????

[VladaFu]

That is the point! "čtvrt na dvě" is a quarter past one. That is how we denote these times in Czech.

[BoneheadBass]

There's additional information in the Tips and Notes here:
https://www.duolingo.com/skill/cs/Numbers1/tips-and-notes

[jinlerry]

this concept of telling time is a bit difficult to grasp.

[PlasticBiddy]

I'd say that's an understatement! :)