Halbzeit

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German

Etymology

From halb (“half”) +‎ Zeit (“time”), after English half-time.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhalpˌtsaɪ̯t/
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Noun

Halbzeit f (genitive Halbzeit, plural Halbzeiten)

  1. (sports) half (one of two equally long periods of a match)
    Synonyms: Hälfte, Spielhälfte, Spielabschnitt
  2. (sports) half time (the interval between these periods)
    Synonyms: Pause, Halbzeitpause

Usage notes

  • The two senses are rarely confusable because there are two halves and only one half-time. So the latter is simply die Halbzeit, while the former sense will occur as eine Halbzeit (“one half”), diese Halbzeit (“this half”), die zweite Halbzeit (“the second half”), and so on.

Declension

Declension of Halbzeit
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Halbzeit die Halbzeiten
genitive einer der Halbzeit der Halbzeiten
dative einer der Halbzeit den Halbzeiten
accusative eine die Halbzeit die Halbzeiten

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Halbzeit” in Duden online
  • “Halbzeit” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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