ナカバ – Vocabulary details

ナカバ

Meanings

Noun

Suffix

1. middle; halfway; midway

変へん化かが訪おとずれたのは、午ご後ごも半なかばを過すぎた頃ころであった。The change came when the afternoon was more than half over.

Noun

2. half (of); one half

参さん加か者しゃの半なかばは学がく生せいだった。Half of the participants were students.

Adverb

3. half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly; in part; partially

俺おれは半なかば笑わらいつつそう言いった。I said so, half laughing.

4. mostly; almost; nearly

だから、こうなることは半なかば必ひつ然ぜんだった。So it was all but inevitable that things would turn out this way.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

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Composed of

ナカ

inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during

Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

ココロザシナカバ

leaving one's objective incomplete; leaving one's ambition unfulfilled; being unable to achieve one's goal

ミチナカバ

halfway (through, complete); midway

ナカバスギ

beyond the middle

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Examples (15 in total)

参さん加か者しゃのなかばナカバは学がく生せいだった。

Half of the participants were students.

トムは３０代だいなかばナカバだよ。

Tom is in his mid-thirties.

彼かれは財ざい産さんのなかばナカバを失うしなった。

He lost half of his fortune.