dalinti

Dalinti is a Lithuanian verb meaning to divide, distribute, or share. It is used in mathematical contexts to describe division and in everyday language to allocate parts of a quantity among recipients.

In arithmetic, dalinti denotes the operation of dividing a whole into equal parts or assigning portions to different people. In everyday usage, it conveys the idea of sharing resources, such as dalinti pinigus among colleagues or dalinti darbų in a team. The verb is transitive and used with a direct object, and it conjugates like other Lithuanian verbs to reflect person, number, and tense.

Aspects and related forms: Dalinti is imperfective; a common perfective form is išdalinti, meaning to hand out or distribute completely. Related nouns include dalinimas (the act of division) and dalytis (to share or be shared).

Etymology and relatives: The root dal- is connected with the notion of parts or portions. It has cognates in other Baltic languages, such as Latvian dalīt (to divide). The word appears in legal, economic, and educational vocabulary and can take prefixes to create nuanced meanings, such as išdalinti (to distribute to the end) or padalinti (to divide up among parts).