Not familiar with either language. What are the English translations of these two phrases?
"Halb zwei" is "half two". It means "1:30".
Google translates German “halb zwei” to French “deux heures et demie”: 1h off
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#12For "viertel" (quarter), German itself isn't without its regional ambiguities, though.
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#13DeepL[0] outputs the same.
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#14To help my fellow English-speakers: "halb zwei" ("half two") is the German idiom for "halfway [between one and] two o'clock" "deux heures et demie" ("two hours and one half") is a much better cognate for the English "half past two o'clock" We're all used to off-by-one and fencepost errors. To be honest, this is probably a less interesting one of Google translate's mistranslations. But it's one that's very mechanical…
To make things even more confusing, “half two” means 2:30 in the UK and Ireland.
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#16To help my fellow English-speakers: "halb zwei" ("half two") is the German idiom for "halfway [between one and] two o'clock" "deux heures et demie" ("two hours and one half") is a much better cognate for the English "half past two o'clock" We're all used to off-by-one and fencepost errors. To be honest, this is probably a less interesting one of Google translate's mistranslations. But it's one that's very mechanical…
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#17Um halb drei -> À trois heures et demie Um halb drei gehen -> Aller à deux heures et demie Um halb drei gehen wir -> A quatre heures et demie nous partons Um halb drei gehen wir ins Kino. -> A trois heures et demie nous allons au cinéma.
For DeepL:
-> À trois heures et demie
-> 14 h 30 du soir,
-> À 14 h 30,
-> On va au cinéma à 14h30.
Correct for everything but the first, not sure why it added "du soir". For the a complete sentence "Um halb drei gehen wir." it's also correct ("On part à 14h30.").
Re: Google translates German “halb zwei” to French “deux heures et demie”: 1h off
#18Here is what https://translate.yandex.com says:
halb zwei -> une heure et demie (FR)
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#19Machine translation is so frequently and so badly wrong that it can't be trusted at all. I guess it keeps translators in a job when it can't even get basic things right, let alone complex translation.
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#20For "viertel" (quarter), German itself isn't without its regional ambiguities, though.
There are two different conventions, but I never saw any ambiguity:
One convention is "viertel vor zwei" (13.45) / "viertel nach zwei" (14.15), the other convention popular in the east and southwest is "dreiviertel zwei" (13.45) and "viertel drei" (14.15).