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halb

halb

Estonian

Adjective

halb (genitive halva, partitive halba)

  1. bad

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German

Etymology

From Old High German halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz. Compare Dutch half, English half, Danish halv.

Pronunciation

Adjective

halb (not comparable)

  1. half, halfway
    Er ist seit einem halben Monat nicht mehr hier gewesen.
    He hasn’t been here for half a month.
    • 2013, Frederick Forsyth, translated from English by Tom Knoth, Der Schakal. Thriller, Piper Verlag:
      Die werden halb Frankreich alarmiert haben.“ [accusative neuter of the strong declension]

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Adverb

halb

  1. a half-hour before, thirty minutes before (used with the number of the following hour)
    Wir treffen uns um halb zwei.
    We’re meeting at one-thirty.

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