Selbst gethan ist halb gethan=--What you do 30 yourself is half done.
Halb sind sie kalt, halb sind sie roh=--Look closely at those who patronise you.
Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh=--Half of 10 them are without heart, half without culture.
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art=--It is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by halves.
In the story from Bergamo it is a gold pestle, and not a mortar, that is found, and the story of "halb geritten" is retained.
The rest of the story contains the episode lacking in the other popular Italian versions, but found in Grimm, and technically known as "halb geritten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
