polovici

In a sentence

• Razdelili smo torto na dve polovici.

  We divided the cake into two halves.

  The word 'polovici' is used to mean 'halves' (two parts of a whole) in the dative/locative plural case form in this sentence.

• Vsaka polovica kolača je bila enako velika.

  Each half of the cake was equally large.

  Here 'polovica' refers to one half of something (a specific portion of a whole) in its singular nominative form.

• Po polovici prehojene poti smo se ustavili.

  After walking halfway, we stopped.

  In this example, 'polovici' indicates 'halfway' or 'at the middle point' in a figurative sense, used in the locative case to denote position.