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la

feminine

/mwatje/

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Translation

half

Word origin

From Latin medietatem, accusative of medietas ('middle, half'), from medius ('middle').

Origin
Latin
Root
medietas
English cognates
moiety, medium, median

Grammar

Genderfeminine

Examples

, 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.

.

Half of the guests had already left before midnight.

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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This word is part of lesson 16.