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Szia Shadi!

Thank you for your comment. However, it is correct: 8:15 = negyed 9. It is a pecularity in Hungarian.😁 negyed = quarter past

/You can think of it (of a full hour) as a whole cake. Quarter is when its quarter is there.🙂/

I hope this helps! Have fun learning Hungarian and let us know if you have any questions.

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Erika

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You made a mistake

Negyed kilenckor hol vagy?

"Where will you be at 8:15

Should be 9.15 instead

Szia Ana!

Thank you for your comment. Great observation!😎 It is indeed somewhat tricky in Hungarian - it differs from the English way of telling time.

The examples are correct. You can think of it like a piece of cake. (Literally😄) A WHOLE cake is a WHOLE hour (e.g. 9AM). Then: 8:15=NEGYED 9 -> It's just the quarter of it. Same goes for 2:30=FÉL 3. (The half of it.)

I hope this helps.❤️ Let us know if you have any questions.

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Erika

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Are these examples correct?

For example:

Fél háromkor kezdünk.

"We'll start at 2:30." Harom is 3, so should it be 3:30?

Quarter past is formed similarly, using the word "quarter" or negyed.

For example:

Negyed kilenckor hol vagy?

"Where will you be at 8:15?" Kilenc is nine. Should it be 9:15?

Szia Russ!

Thank you for your comment. I have checked the PDF's of several level 1 lessons -including lesson 9- and they seemed to be correct. Are you still experiencing this issue? Thank you for your feedback in advance!

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Erika

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I am on level one lesson 9 (on the website). However, when I download the associated PDF it is titled "lesson 8". This is true of most for the Level 1 PDFs. Am I missing something or is this an mistake?

Szia Kevin,

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Szia ALICE,

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Perhaps another way of explaining Negyed kettő = 1:15 is that the time is (only) 1/4 of the way to 1 o'clock.

Similarly, Háromnegyed kettő = 1:45 means that the time is 3/4 of the way to 2 o'clock.

Szia

Kedves teller@rcn.com,

Thanks for your comment!

Actually, I have never thought of "mikor" this way, but you are right! "kor" can mean age!!😆

Szép estét,

Dorottya

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Can one think of mikor as what hour as in mi and kor?

I've just been using the flashcards, and have found that the flashcard for "buliba" says both the word AND the translation, instead of just saying the word.

Also, could you please update the PDF for this lesson, as it's missing a lot of text.

That being said, I'm learning heaps and really appreciate this program. Well done!

Szia Carol,

Thank you for your questions! Let me answer them one by one!

Quarters in Hungarian are the following:

1.15

You can both say "1 óra 15 perc" or "Negyed kettő", the second meaning literally "1/4 2".

1.45

You can both say "1 óra 45 perc" or "Háromnegyed kettő", this means literally 3/4 2.

Actually, in both cases you will use the coming hour when using "quarter", but not when you talk in minutes.

The suffix -kor is only used to describe time. To say "at the park or at the house" you would use "-ban" and say "a parkban" or "a házban" (It's actually more "in the park or in the house").

Last, "mi újság" means literally "what's new?", the word "újság" is generally used to say both "news" and "newspaper".

I hope I answered all your questions!

I know that quarters are quite difficult to understand, I had the same problem when I was learning time in English! "Quarter to one" is just as strange for me as "háromnegyed" for you!:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

If you have other questions or doubts, please send a comment!

Good luck!

Dorottya

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Szia,

The lesson transcript is missing a fair amount of dialogue.

I understand how the half hour phrasing works, but am not understanding the quarter or three quarter phrasings.

Negyed means quarter and haromnegyed means three quarter? Do you add negyed to the current hour and subtract haromnegyed from the coming hour?

Is "kor" , which is attached to the number, a suffix meaning "at" ? And can that same suffix be attached to nouns such as house or park or is it just for numbers?

Also, does "mi újság?" literally means "what's new?" since the translation you give for újság is "news or newspaper"?

Thanks. I know that is a lot of questions.

Carol

Hi Sandy!

Thank you for your comment.

I can answer you the language instructor stuff:

Half past X in Hungarian is always "half X+1".

Half past nine would be fél tíz or "half ten". Easy!:thumbsup:

I'll forward the comment to the content team.

Thanks again,

Csaba

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Sziastok!

I do love your lessons, but I see there's quite a problem with the PDF lesson transcript for this one! A significant amount of text is not there... And now I don't know how to write "half past"! :(

Could you fix it for us?

Köszönöm szépen!

Sandy

Hi Danielle!

Yes, you are, but don't worry, it happens to the best of us. :)

"Negyed plus a number" when talking about time in Hungarian means "number-1 plus fifteen minutes." This is mighty confusing again, so I'll just give you a few more examples:

negyed egy - 12:15

negyed hat - 17:15 or 5:15

You can also use fél.

fél kilenc - 20:30 or 8:30

fél három - 14:30 or 2:30

Hajrá!

Csaba

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Jó éjszakát!

I have a quick question. In the lesson notes it says that "Negyed kilenckor hol vagy?" translates to "Where will you be at 8:15?" Would it not be 9:15? Or am I just confusing math :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Köszönöm!

Danielle