halva

In a sentence

• Jag åt halva chokladkakan.

  I ate half of the chocolate cake.

  Here, 'halva' is used as a quantitative measure, meaning half of something.

• Halva av lagets spelare var skadade.

  Half of the team's players were injured.

  In this sentence, 'halva' indicates a fraction of a group, referring to half of the team's players.

• Vi bodde i halva huset under renoveringen.

  We lived in half the house during the renovation.

  'Halva' denotes a portion of a larger space, such as half of a house.