Dutch/What time is it?

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Saying "what time it is" is quite different from English. You do not use the same rules for saying 8.10 and 8.50 for examples. In order to not be too abstract, we will take 8 hour for our examples.

Contents 1 __:00 / __:15 / __:30 / __:45 2 __:01 to __:19 3 __:20 4 __:21 to __:29 5 __:30 6 __:31 to __:39 7 __:40 8 __:41 to __:59 9 __:00

[edit] __:00 / __:15 / __:30 / __:45

Examples:

 8:00 - 8 uur
 8:15 - kwart over 8
 8:30 - half 9
 8:45 - kwart voor 9

[edit] __:01 to __:19

Examples:

 8:01 - 1 over 8
 8:02 - 2 over 8
 ...
 8:19 - 19 over 8

[edit] __:20

Example:

 8:20 - 20 over 8 (not used everywhere), or 10 voor half 9

[edit] __:21 to __:29

Examples:

 8:21 - 9 voor half 9
 8:22 - 8 voor half 9
 ...
 8:29 - 1 voor half 9

[edit] __:30

Example:

 8:30 - half 9

[edit] __:31 to __:39

Examples:

 8:31 - 1 over half 9
 8:32 - 2 over half 9
 ...
 8:39 - 9 over half 9

[edit] __:40

Example:

 8:40 - 10 over half 9

[edit] __:41 to __:59

Examples:

 8:41 - 19 voor 9
 8:42 - 18 voor 9
 ...
 8:59 - 1voor 9

[edit] __:00

Example:

 9:00 - 9 uur