"Elefantul are câteva jumătăți."
Translation:The elephant has some halves.
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As a native speaker, I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to mean. The word for "half" (noun) is indeed „jumătate”: o jumătate, două jumătăți.
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Funnily enough, the word for rib in Spanish, "costilla" can also be used colloquially to mean "wife", other half" or "better half". "And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman" (Genesis 2:22).
en que pais ? Por lo menos en Ecuador y en Peru jamas escuche eso. Se dice " media naranja" pero nunca escuche que alguien diga " mi costilla" no vino hoy " !
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Entonces el término coloquial "costilla" se usará solo en España. También es verdad que no es una expresión tan actual como la de "media naranja".
Gracias Srta Castillo. es que hay tantas diferencias idiomaticas entre el castellano de España y aquellos de America Latina que uno tiene que cuidarse mucho cuando viaja de un pais a otro como lo hice desde 1966 ( toda America Latina sin excepción). Palabras que significan algo en un pais significan otra cosa ( a veces mala) en otro ! Su nombre, por ejemplo ! En Ecuador mejor no llamar a su hija asi ! Vale. !
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En Argentina no se usa habitualmente, pero lo he leído dicho de forma despectiva para llamar a las mujeres... no sabía que tenía ese otro uso. "Shut up, rib!"
Really ? where ? in which country ? nunca escuche eso y son 26 anos que vivo en Ecuador y Peru .
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En Colombia y creo que también en Venezuela.
Saludos desde Colombia.
In Colombia and I think also in Venezuela.
Greetings from Colombia
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JUMĂTÁTE s. v. nevastă, soție.
https://dexonline.ro/definitie/jum%C4%83t%C4%83%C8%9Bi https://dexonline.ro/definitie/jum%C4%83tate
ой. Я не думаю,что румыны преполагали это. Есть много дргих спсбв учить спржение глглв.
No, it has no meaning, it is just to let us speak about stupidity and rest a little during learning...
No it hasn't. It is just to let us speak about stupidities and to offer us some rest during learning...
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In nature, a male elephant may have several female partners. One of the synonyms of the word „jumătate” is "soție" (wife, spouse). So, the sentence "Elefantul are câteva jumătăți " does not sound too weird.
https://dexonline.ro/definitie/jum%C4%83tate
Ce ți s-a întîmplat, babo ? zise el cum își văzu jumătatea. ISPIRESCU
this is the only answer that makes sense. thanks. but you have to speak fluent "Rdmanesca" to know that synonym.
Maybe the elephant was giving some pumpkins to smash and now he has a few halves of pumpkin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4TGweCDBw
Ah Duo, losing heart with this. This is such a great app but I feel there's no rhyme or reason to the Romanian course. Teach us to say things that make sense! I can say all sorts of stupid shit like this but can barely talk to my partner's family for more than 30 seconds. I'm not going to be dropping this one in anywhere..
You should read little books in romanian and ask for the words without shame when you try to speak. I first spoke without knowing grammatic, just the sounds , than have 20 hours cours in groups of 10 strangers with a teacher, and now I try to complete my knowledges with Duo. I found effectively a lot of sentences very stypid, but you should learn it by taking care to the target of the sentence, and not to the meaning or the translating that can be also strange sometimes.
Sometimes some stupid sentenses are more easy to memorise because of the stangeness. Courage!
PS: I have to learn 2 languages at the same time. As you can noticed English is not my mother language!
One more completely silly sentence... Who the hell finds out the sentences??? An algorithm I hope... not people.
They probably had it initially as "The elephant has some quarters" but figured out it would still mean something about US dollar...
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You ask too many questions. Let's just agree the elephant has a number of halves of an unspecified nature and leave it at that. We don't want the FBI to be breaking our doors, do we?
The elefant has/weighs some centners
halves = centners (hundredweight cwt = 50kg)
jumătate de chintal = half of a quintal = a centner = 50kg
There can be more than that if you have more than one of something.
Let's say you have two things = four halves.