French term
à onze heures quinze minutes
This is a document by a Registrar, authenticating a naturalisation to Belgian citizenship.
My problem is that I want to translate the time as "at fifteen minutes past eleven", but that could be in the night. Does one simply put a.m. after the time? Sorry for such a basic question.
| 4 +4 | at fifteen minutes past eleven (in the morning) |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 5 -2 | at 11:15 |
Dániel Csörföly
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Nov 7, 2017 01:01: AllegroTrans changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Rachel Fell, Yvonne Gallagher, AllegroTrans
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Proposed translations
Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
at fifteen minutes past eleven (in the morning)
the construction: at fifteen minutes past eleven (a.m),
looks strange, whereas at eleven a.m. would not
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Note added at 2 hrs (2017-11-07 01:06:05 GMT)
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and yes, eleven fifteen a.m. would work as well but the a.m. is really not needed I think
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Note added at 1 day12 hrs (2017-11-08 11:50:03 GMT) Post-grading
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yes, I'd definitely use a.m when written out in full in formal documents like here:
So, at eleven fifteen a.m. OR at fifteen minutes past eleven in the morning
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AllegroTrans
: at eleven fifteen a.m.
19 mins
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Thanks Chris. That's better but agree the a.m. really isn't needed in the context.
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BrigitteHilgner
6 hrs
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Thanks:-)
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writeaway
: with AT.
6 hrs
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Thanks:-)
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B D Finch
: Agree with the need for a.m., or "in the morning", even if it may seem obvious that it wasn't 11.15 p.m.
11 hrs
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Thanks. Yes, I'd probably spell it out too, though not strictly necessary given the context.
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Hungary
Medical translator
Native in: English 
, Hungarian , German
Works in: Hungarian to English, German to English, Arabic to English, and 4 more.
at 11:15
quinze = 15
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Yolanda Broad
: 11:15 a.m. (to avoid confuring English speakers)
2 hrs
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writeaway
: it should be written out in words like the source text.
5 hrs
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Jennifer White
: Agree with w/w. Times are invariably written in words in such documents
7 hrs
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B D Finch
: Not only should it be written in words, given the context, but if it were to be abbreviated this way, "a.m." is needed. Also note this format is EN-US, EN-UK format is 11.15 am
10 hrs
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AllegroTrans
: needs to be in words and a.m. is needed
10 hrs
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philgoddard
: Nothing wrong with this.
10 hrs
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Discussion
the Asker is asking about possible ambiguity in English. They already know the French is clearly a.m.