"Je čtvrt na dvě."
Translation:It is a quarter past one.
July 24, 2018
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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.
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".
There's additional information in the Tips and Notes here: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/cs/Numbers1/tips-and-notes