Es ist neun Uhr - It’s nine o’clock. If you want to say ‘it is quarter past nine’ then that’s Es ist viertel nach neun. And half past, in German, you actually say half to. So half past ...
Narrator: How about showing Brain some ... minute hand around the clock's face, whilst the hour hand moves on just one more number. Clock: Alright, let’s go! Half past 1. Half past 2.