两个半钟头

[kavanin]

I feel it means two and a half hours.

How would you say two half hours (which is effectively 1 hour)?

How would you translate the title of the TV show "Two and a Half Men?"

[SLA]

I'd go for 两个人半，not sure though...

[imron]

How would you say two half hours (which is effectively 1 hour)?

I'd guess something like 两个半个小时

How would you translate the title of the TV show "Two and a Half Men?"

Google tells me 好汉两个半 seems to be a commonly used translation.

[袁未来]

两个半小时=一小时

三个半小时=一小时三十分钟

四个半小时=两个小时

五个半小时=两小时三十分钟

...you can work out the rest by anology...

as for Two and a Half Men, in chinese, we dont usually say 半个人(half a man),if it were to be translated, the best translation that i'd feel comfortable about would be 好汉两个半.

i am a native speaker of mandarin,hope i can be of help to u.

[yialanliu]

I typically don't bump old threads but I feel like I need to for this:

两个半小时=一小时

三个半小时=一小时三十分钟

四个半小时=两个小时

五个半小时=两小时三十分钟

...you can work out the rest by anology...

as for Two and a Half Men, in chinese, we dont usually say 半个人(half a man),if it were to be translated, the best translation that i'd feel comfortable about would be 好汉两个半.

i am a native speaker of mandarin,hope i can be of help to u.

I don't think any of the analogies are correct up there.

两个半个小时=一小时

三个半个小时=一小时三十分钟

四个半个小时=两个小时

五个半个小时=两小时三十分钟

they are all missing the second 个 which was mentioned earlier. An alternative would be:

两个半个钟头=一小时

三个半个钟头=一小时三十分钟

四个半个钟头=两个小时

五个半个钟头=两小时三十分钟

[shinewind]

If you really wanna say "two half hours" in Chinese, you can say:

1.两个“半小时”（first choice only written）

2. 两个 半个小时（have a pause between them and only oral）

3. add context. for example to tell the listener that it is an hour you are talking about and he/she will not mistake it for two and a half hours. below i give an example:

我花了两个（pause ）半小时，加起来一个小时。

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You can make reference to other comments but what 袁未来 says up there is clearly wrong. it is beyond me why a native speaker would contribute something that misleading...