lamoitié
/mwatje/
Translation
half
Grammar
Examples
sandwich, j' .
I am going to give you half my sandwich, I ate too much this morning.
, .
We have done half the journey, there is still as much left to do.
l' .
His other half has been waiting for him at home for two hours.
- .
Cut the apple in two and give me half.
invités minuit.
Half of the guests had already left before midnight.
Moitie est un nom feminin designant la moitie (half) d'un tout. La moitie de + nom exprime la fraction. A moitie (half, halfway) est une locution adverbiale : a moitie fait (half-done). Sa moitie designe familierement le conjoint ou la conjointe (one's better half).
Moitie-moitie (fifty-fifty) exprime un partage egal. A mi-chemin et a la moitie du chemin ont le meme sens de mi-parcours. Partager en deux moitiees (to split in half) est la construction avec le verbe. Demi est l'adjectif correspondant.
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