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半なかば
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. middle; halfway; midway
The change came when the afternoon was more than half over.
Noun
2. half (of); one half
Half of the participants were students.
Adverb
3. half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly; in part; partially
I said so, half laughing.
4. mostly; almost; nearly
So it was all but inevitable that things would turn out this way.
Alt. forms
半なかば
89%
なかば
9%
中なかば
Kanji used
半
half
Pitch accent
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Used in: 3384
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
leaving one's objective incomplete; leaving one's ambition unfulfilled; being unable to achieve one's goal
halfway (through, complete); midway
beyond the middle
to be equal in number, degree, etc. (of two things in opposition); to balance; to cancel out
beyond the middle
middle of the month
don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; (lit.) consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; (lit.) consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
Examples (15 in total)
Half of the participants were students.
Tom is in his mid-thirties.
He lost half of his fortune.
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