'Metà' vs. 'mezzo' - How to say "half" in Italian | A Coffee Break with Michela

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Join Michela from the Coffee Break Italian team for a coffee break, in which you'll have the chance to practise and improve your Italian over just 10 minutes.

In this episode, she will take a closer look at how to say half in Italian, specifically the difference between metà and mezzo. While both words can be translated the same, they’re used in different contexts.➗

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1:02.7	Ciao to all. I'm Michael from the Coffee Break Italian team and today I have the pleasure
1:09.0	of joining you for a coffee break. As always,
1:12.6	comest sempre, I'm here to help you improve your Italian little by little. Now, today's topic
1:20.2	is a word that we use in everyday conversations in English, which is the word half, as
1:26.2	in half an hour or I'm halfway there.
1:29.9	But do you know how to say this in Italian?
1:32.9	Well, it's a bit tricky because there are two words for it.
1:36.5	One is mezzo and the other is meta.
1:40.6	So today we are going to learn when to use which.
1:44.7	Alora, Iniziamo.
1:53.8	One of our coffee break Italian learners recently asked us,
1:57.9	how do I know when to use mita and when to use mezzo if they both mean half?
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