German question??

Question

this is about time.


In English, if you say a time like 8:30, in German would you say...

1.) HALB ACHT

2.) NEUN ACHT

3.) or somehing entirely different.....(and if so what is it?)


please help im confused about this!!

Answer 1

You either say "halb neun" (try to imagine it this way: there's one hour in which 8 becomes 9, and half of that hour is already gone) or "acht Uhr dreißig", which is eight thirty. The "Uhr" is important, drop it and it becomes telegram style.

Answer 2

1.) halb neun
2.) acht Uhr dreißig
but this had been said before so just a small addition:
in the Army it would be:
null acht dreißig (in the morning) or zwanzig dreißig (evening)

Answer 3

Halb neun
oder
acht dreissig

Answer 4

you would say halb neun as they say half an hour to instead of half past so where we would say half past 6 they would say halb sieben

Answer 5

acht dreibig

Das Aussprache ist unterschiedlich, aber versucht es irgendwie;

The prononciation is different, but try it anyway...:)