Help Translating Word Clock

[A Former User]

@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 is ein. eins is used as neutral-noun when used alone without any other subjective. So, eins is shorten from ein Uhr. One more funny thing, Uhr is feminine-noun, so eine Uhr means a clock not an hour

[j.e.f.f]

I just pushed an update to correct the German layout. Here’s an example:

[kruemel]

erm… sounds strange to me (Switzerland)
We say: “Es ist zwanzig nach zwölf”
or “es ist fünf vor halb eins”

or “es ist fünf nach eins”
or “es ist zwanzig vor eins”

but nobody here says “zehn vor halb eins”

… complicated this world languages, everybody talks different :D

[A Former User]

:D
In Standarddeutsch(Hochdeutsch),
08:20

• Es ist zwanzig nach acht.
• Es ist zehn vor halb neun.
  both are available. (Also, zwanzig vor = zehn nach halb)

How about this?
08:15

• Es ist Viertel nach acht.
• Es ist viertel acht.

And in some southern German, even this is available.

09:45

• Es ist drei viertel neun.

09:40

• Es ist fünf Minuten vor drei viertel neun.

That is why I dropped my German lesson. :)

[strawberry 3.141]

@Sean the first is correct zwanzig vor = zehn nach halb

the second is incorrect

08:15
Es ist Viertel nach acht.
Es ist viertel acht.

It is either Es ist viertel nach acht or Es ist viertel neun, but Es ist viertel acht would be 07:15.

The next is also correct

09:45
Es ist drei viertel neun.

And the last would be theoretically correct as well, but I really never heard someone saying this.

09:40
Es ist fünf Minuten vor drei viertel neun.

German is probably one of the hardest languages to learn for foreigners.

[A Former User]

@strawberry-3.141 ^^ I was confused.^^ anyway, whether i’m living in Germany for several years as foreigner, Deutsche is verry difficult to learn. The only phrase I can speak is “Bitte? Leider ist meine Deutsche nicht so gut, Kennen Sie Engilsch sprechen?” :P

@j-e-f-f Do you have any interest about Far-East-Asian version for your clock? For Korean, Japanese and Chinese I can help you for the schemes of word clock with proper characters. They are probably easier than Indian-European languages. And even shorter and less exception.
Maybe it’s not useful for most users, but it could be pretty beautiful.

[j.e.f.f]

@Sean that would be amazing! I don’t think the fonts I’m using support double-byte characters though. I’ll have to check. I might need to source other fonts for these.

[A Former User]

@j.e.f.f noto font from google could be possible in raspbian. With my experience, people should install additional fonts for CJK supports like noto.

[j.e.f.f]

@Sean no need. If it’s available in google fonts then I can include it with the module. That’s what I’m doing now.

I need two fonts. One for the I highlighted state, which should be a rather plain version, and one for the highlighted state which should be ornamental.

[A Former User]

@j.e.f.f Traditionally, sanserif and serif would fit.
In a few days, I’ll send you whole scheme for CJK.