ten to
Fifty minutes past
Ten to indicates ten minutes before the hour: It's ten to six means 5:50.
The phrase uses "to" in the sense of approaching or remaining until.
British speakers favor this construction; Americans more often say ten of six or ten till six, though all are understood.
- elevenTen plus one
- clockDevice displaying time
- analog clockTimepiece with rotating hands
- hourSixty-minute span
- nineEight plus one
brink · verge · quarter · minute · pending · imminent · countdown · race against time · time crunch · approach · near · almost · just about · threshold · concluding · schedule · second · tick tock
clock position relative to the hour
ten toten past
Specific clock time
quarter past · o'clock · on the hour · five past · half past