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Help Translating Word Clock
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@willfri thanks. I think I’ll leave it as is then.
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@j.e.f.f There is a shop about 30 minutes drive which sells a word clock, but I’m not sure if it was in german or english. Anyways if I’ll get there I will take a photo so we can see how they arranged the layout.
EDIT: I found a picture online of the shop, looks like they have swissgerman, english and german. I could try to create a swissgerman translation. But switzerland has so many dialects and there are no rules how you write words down as far as I know, because they have to write in german but they speak in swissgerman. I will give it a try.
EDIT 2: need to investigate why it’s not showing the characters
äöü
, because the font supports it. Some encoding stuff should be the issue.EDIT 3: https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-MyWordClock I have to leave now. Will create the tall version and pr later.
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@willfri @strawberry-3-141
Is the translation of 13:20 okee, I would say “Es ist zehn vor halb zwei”? -
@strawberry-3.141 This is amazing! Thanks for this. Let me know when the tall version is available and I’ll merge it in
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@pjkoeleman Yes, “Es ist zehn vor halb zwei” would be better as “Es ist zwanzig nach eins”
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I am ashamed to tell this, I’m living in Germany for years but cannot speak any Deutsche. :)
You can see this.
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@pjkoeleman Yep I’ll take care of this. Thanks for pointing this out!
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@Sean From the link you sent, it appears that “Viertel” should always be capitalized, much like “Uhr.”
@willfri @strawberry-3-141 is that the case?
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@j.e.f.f said in Help Translating Word Clock:
@Sean From the link you sent, it appears that “Viertel” should always be capitalized, much like “Uhr.”
Viertel
is a noun.viertel
is an adjective. All nouns begin with capital in German.Additionally,
Eins
is a feminine-noun. It means ‘number 1’
eins
is a numeral, but varied form. The root form isein
.eins
is used as neutral-noun when used alone without any other subjective. So,eins
is shorten fromein Uhr
. One more funny thing,Uhr
is feminine-noun, soeine Uhr
meansa clock
notan hour