polovina

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Czech

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    Cardinal: dva
    Ordinal: druhý
    Adverbial: dvakrát
    Repetition adjective: dvojnásobný
    Multiplier: dvojitý
    Collective: dvoje
    Fractional: půl, polovina, polovice

Etymology

From půl +‎ -ovina.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: po‧lo‧vi‧na

Noun

polovina f

  1. half (one of two equal parts into which something may be divided)
    Synonyms: polovice, půle, půlka
    V druhé polovině srpna připravujeme schůžku.We are preparing a meeting in the second half of August.

Declension

Further reading

  • polovina”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • polovina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • polovina”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /polǒʋina/
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo‧vi‧na

Noun

polòvina f (Cyrillic spelling поло̀вина)

  1. half (one of two equal parts into which something may be divided)
    Synonym: (Croatia) polovica

Declension

Slovak

Noun

polovina f (declension pattern of žena)

  1. half (one of two equal parts into which something may be divided)
    Synonym: polovica