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jumatate
half /ʒu.mə.ˈta.te/
noun#2369 most common
Also: one of two equal parts, midpoint, other half (informal: spouse or partner)
Example sentences
Vreau jumătate de măr.
I want half an apple.
El a mâncat jumătate din pizza.
He ate half of the pizza.
Ne întâlnim la jumătatea drumului.
We'll meet halfway.
Prețul s-a redus la jumătate în ultimul an.
The price dropped by half over the last year.
Cele două jumătăți ale echipei aveau opinii diferite privind strategia.
The two halves of the team had different opinions about the strategy.
Într-o jumătate de secol, orașul și-a schimbat complet fizionomia, iar cele două jumătăți ale sale, cea veche și cea nouă, coexistă acum într-un echilibru fragil.
In half a century, the city completely changed its face, and its two halves, the old and the new, now coexist in a fragile balance.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | jumătate | jumătăți |
| Genitive | jumătăți | jumătăților |
| Accusative | jumătate | jumătăți |
| Vocative | jumătate | jumătăți |
Word family
jumătatehalf
jumătățihalves (plural)
înjumătățito halve, to cut in half
înjumătățirehalving, reduction by half
jumatecolloquial clipped form: a half-liter of beer
Etymology
Jumătate is inherited straight from spoken Latin, from dimidietatem, the accusative of dimidietas. That noun was built on dimidius, meaning half, itself a fusion of dis- (apart) and medius (middle). Centuries of regular sound change in Romanian reshaped dimidietatem into jumătate, the same process that turned civitatem into cetate and libertatem into libertate.
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