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Viertel

Viertel

See also: viertel

German

Noun

Viertel n (genitive Viertels, plural Viertel)

  1. quarter (fourth part of something)
  2. quarter, neighbourhood (of a town or city)

Declension

Derived terms

viertel

viertel

See also: Viertel

German

Preposition

viertel

  1. (East Germany, Bavaria, Austria) three-quarters of an hour before, 45 minutes before (used with the number of the following hour)
    Wir treffen uns um viertel zwei.
    We’re meeting at quarter past one.

Usage notes

Unlike the construction halb zwei (half past one, one-thirty), constructions like viertel zwei and dreiviertel zwei are restricted to the eastern parts of the German-speaking area, and may not be understood elsewhere. In the remaining parts of the German-speaking area, the usual constructions are Viertel nach eins (quarter past one) and Viertel vor zwei (quarter to two).

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