Translation
half
Examples
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I ate only half of the bread.
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She waited for him for half an hour.
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Half of the people have already left.
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Give me the other half!
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The two halves are entirely equal.
is plus the fraction suffix -on-, and that suffix is the whole point: once you have it, o, o and o cost you nothing. What follows a fraction takes , so . As a prefix it glues straight on, giving duonhoro for half an hour and duonvoĉe for under one's breath, and it shades into "half-hearted" in words like duonfermita. Note that duonpatro is a stepfather rather than half a man, which is the sort of thing worth knowing before you use it.
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