"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).
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Really ? where ? in which country ? nunca escuche eso y son 26 anos que vivo en Ecuador y Peru .
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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".
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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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JUMĂTÁTE s. v. nevastă, soție.
https://dexonline.ro/definitie/jum%C4%83t%C4%83%C8%9Bi https://dexonline.ro/definitie/jum%C4%83tate
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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
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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
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The elefant has/weighs some centners
halves = centners (hundredweight cwt = 50kg)
jumătate de chintal = half of a quintal = a centner = 50kg
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There can be more than that if you have more than one of something.
Let's say you have two things = four halves.
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half of a quintal = 50kg of weight.
That elefant weighs several of them.