полпятого

Russian

Etymology

пол- (pol-, “half”) +‎ пя́тый (pjátyj, “fifth”), with пя́тый (pjátyj) in the genitive case, as with other words prefixed with пол- (pol-). Compare German halb fünf (“half past four”, literally “half five”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˌpoɫˈpʲatəvə] (phonetic respelling: по̀лпя́тово)

Noun

полпя́того • (polpjátovo) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. (colloquial) half past four, four-thirty (hour of the day)

Declension

Invariable.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.