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how do you write 5 minutes till 2 in spanish?
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You asked:
how do you write 5 minutes till 2 in spanish?
Well, firstly, this is how you write your question in English using correct punctuation, especially capital letters! 
How do you write five minutes to two in Spanish, please?
Son las dos menos cinco = It is five minutes to two
The words Son las are used with every hour except one o' clock ;
Son las diez menos veinte = It is twenty (minutes) to ten
Son las diez y cinco = It is five minutes past ten
but, please take note, It is five minutes to one:
Es la hora menos cinco.
For the benefit of those people here who think that I should have offered the questioner a link to the translator so they could use that instead, this is what I received when I posted in these words: It is five minutes to two:
All the options / answers given by the translator machine below are wrong! / incorrect!!! The first two: Microsoft and SDL do not even use the correct verb: ser, which is used to talk about time!
Está a cinco minutos a dos (Microsoft) Está a cinco minutos a dos (SDL) Es dos menos cinco (Prompt)
I hope this helps you
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f you can count to 29 in Spanish and learn a handful of words, you can tell time.
The basic way of telling time in Spanish is to use the singular form of ser ("to be"), which is es, for one o'clock and the plural form, son, for other times. Minutes can be stated simply by separating them from the hour using y, the word for "and."
Es la una. It is 1:00
Es la una y dos. It is 1:02.
Son las dos. It is 2:00.
Son las tres. It is 3:00.
Son las seis y cinco. It is 6:05.
Son las siete y diez. It is 7:10.
- Son las once y diecinueve. It is 11:19.
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For minutes before the hour, you can also say for "twenty minutes to two"
"Faltan veinte minutos para las dos."
"Faltan (some number) minutos para las (hour). --except for "la una" Faltan once minutos para la una. (Some people even leave "minutos" out. I never do.
