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Czech
Etymology
From půl + -ovina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: po‧lo‧vi‧na
Noun
polovina f
- 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
Declension of polovina (hard feminine)
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)
- half (one of two equal parts into which something may be divided)
- Synonym: (Croatia) polovica
Declension
Slovak
Noun
polovina f (declension pattern of žena)
- half (one of two equal parts into which something may be divided)
- Synonym: polovica