How to say "7.45 before the hour"

Question

Thank you "goya" re accentuation .. Just wondering if anyone out there knew an easier way of saying 7.45 to anything on the clock.
gracios Wenni267xx.

Answer 1

You mean like this?

Son las ocho menos cuarto. It is 7:45. (It is quarter to eight.)

I must be having trouble reading English. Maybe that's a good sign. - 0074b507, Jul 31, 2010

Answer 2

I think qfreed and Jorge are right. I also think "45 minutes before the hour" is a clumsy construct in English that you'd probably only hear a newscaster say.

In any case, time is expressed slightly differently in Spanish than in English, so a word for word translation may sound awkward. 45 minutes before the hour is a quarter past the current hour in Spanish.

Ta mate that's real good of yah! - wenni267xx, Aug 1, 2010

Answer 3

The correct is 07:15 and not 07:45.

Asi que: son las siete y cuarto o son las siete mas quince

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Otherwise it would have been: "15 minutes before the hour" and the correct answer would have been : 07.45

gracios jorge..i should have said 7.45. "son las siete mas quince sounds" more concise. - wenni267xx, Jul 31, 2010

Answer 4

I don't think that it would normally expressed this way, but you can say "Son las seis menos cuarenta y cinco [minutos]." I think that you would normally hear "Son las cinco y cuarto".

Not having read the alluded to thread, I don't know what we are comparing it to for the meaning of easier.

I think the whole reason that they switch from y to menos beyond half past is to avoid using 45 minutes to....