Russian Course 2 level 19 time

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сейчас двадцать минут восьмого
it’s twenty minutes past seven

How is seven восьмого? wouldn’t it be семьмого?

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It is “20 minutes TOWARDS 8 o’clock”.

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@macmiller194083, in Russian we are forward thinking about time, unlike English. So, here it’s '20 minutes of 8"

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So what in English is 20 minutes until eight (7:40)
In Russian 40 minutes of eight? Is that correct?

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@macmiller194083
It will be 8 without 20 minutes. Без двадцати восемь

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Thank you. Russian is a challenging language.

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That is damn interesting and bizarre in a cool way. Anything else Russians tend to think of in a different manner?