"Saa moja na dakika arobaini"

Translation: Seven forty

[KP0S6M1a]

Why not forty minutes past seven ?

[UweRo]

"Seven forty" will not do?

[machieng]

should be correct

[Richiekay369]

You have a typo in your answer

[BeelerFami]

7:40 is almost the same thing as forty past 7, in my experience...?

[TessEwing1]

Forty past seven would be an unusual way to say it, although the meaning is clear.

[Lng52-._]

TessEwing1: And, to make it more confusing, how about "twenty minutes to eight?

[BBazzle]

So this literally translates as "hour one and minute forty", correct? Just want to make sure i understand what its saying before interpretation to english standards

[machieng]

'saa moja' is both 'one hour' and 'seven o'clock' (i.e. one hour after dusk/dawn). 'Dakika' does not change in singular to plural so 'dakika arobaini' is 'forty minutes'. Adjectives come after nouns in Swahili

[Ghalib962002]

Seven forty is proper english