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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.
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).
Really ? where ? in which country ? nunca escuche eso y son 26 anos que vivo en Ecuador y Peru .
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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.
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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
The elefant has/weighs some centners
halves = centners (hundredweight cwt = 50kg)
jumătate de chintal = half of a quintal = a centner = 50kg
