viertel

== English == === Noun === viertel (plural viertels) (obsolete) An old German liquid measure. == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɪʁtəl/, [ˈfɪʁtl̩], [ˈfɪɐ̯tl̩], [ˈfɪʁtəl], [ˈfɪɐ̯təl]; recommended by Duden and DWDS: [ˈfɪʁtl̩] IPA(key): /fɪtəl/ (northern Germany and parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial) === Numeral === viertel a quarter of something (used as an indeclinable adjective) (East Germany, Bavaria, Austria) three-quarters of an hour before, 45 minutes before (used with the number of the following hour) ==== Usage notes ==== The gender of the expression "viertel+noun" is the gender of the noun. Unlike the construction halb zwei (“half past one, one-thirty”), constructions like viertel zwei and dreiviertel zwei are restricted to the eastern and southern parts of the German-speaking area, and may not be understood elsewhere. In the remaining parts of the German-speaking area, the usual constructions are Viertel nach eins (“quarter past one”) and Viertel vor zwei (“quarter to two”). ==== See also ==== dreiviertel halb === Further reading === “viertel”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “viertel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon