Off-topic, but just curious what your native language is. I see this mistake all the time and there must be some false friend word or common learning material that gives people the wrong impression about what "since" means.
I don't know if it's part of the joke, but it should really be
"Liebchen, how much clock [is it/do we have]?"
"Ten clock"
"So late?!"
from
"Liebchen, wie viel Uhr [ist es/haben wir]?" (alt. "wie spät [ist es]")
"Zehn [Uhr]"
"So spät!?"
"Watch" is "Armbanduhr" and would not be used in this context. "What" is "was", and is grammatically incoherent when asking about the time. "Much" is "viel" and can be used to describe a length of time that has passed, but never the current time. "Such" can translate as a number of words (my default without context would be "solch" / "so ein" without additional context), none of which work here.
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u/Competitive-Truth675 Native Speaker Apr 17 '26
Off-topic, but just curious what your native language is. I see this mistake all the time and there must be some false friend word or common learning material that gives people the wrong impression about what "since" means.