In linguistics, a partitive is a word, phrase, or case that indicates partialness. Nominal partitives are syntactic constructions, such as "some of the...

The partitive case (abbreviated PTV, PRTV, or more ambiguously PART) is a grammatical case which denotes "partialness", "without result", or "without...

Partitive plural is a grammatical number that is used to modify a noun which represents a part of some whole amount, as opposed to the comprehensive plural...

coffee? For more information, see the article on the French partitive article. Haida has a partitive article (suffixed -gyaa) referring to "part of something...

Partible inheritance, sometimes also called partitive, is a system of inheritance in which property is apportioned among heirs. It contrasts in particular...

A partitive numeral is a form of a numeral that expresses a fraction rather than a whole number. Examples include 'half', 'two fifths', and 'one quarter'...

indicated by the noun being modified ("Janet's husband") composition (see Partitive): substance ("a wheel of cheese") elements ("a group of men") source ("a...

a fraction are known linguistically as "partitive numerals". In spoken English, ordinal numerals and partitive numerals are identical with a few exceptions...

In quotitive division one asks "how many parts are there?" while in partitive division one asks "what is the size of each part?" In general, a quotient...

null pronouns for place and partitives, but Catalan, French, Occitan, and Italian have overt pronouns for place and partitive. Arabic is considered a null-subject...

latter the partitive case. This resulted in the rise of the telicity contrast of the object, which must be in the accusative case or partitive case. The...

the partitive case. In morphosyntactic alignment terms, both do the accusative function, but the accusative object is telic, while the partitive is not...

assume partitive function in Sakha; no other Turkic language has partitive suffix save for Khalaj and (nearly-extinct) Tofa. Sakha partitive is similar...

of the partitive plural is rather variable, but the basic principle is to add '-i-' to the inflecting stem, followed by the '-(t)a' partitive ending....

nominative and partitive, plural nominative, singular partitive: plural genitive, plural genitive: plural cases except nominative and partitive. Singular nominative...

respects including: Shared morphology: case suffixes such as genitive -n, partitive -(t)a / -(t)ä ( < Proto-Uralic *-ta, originally ablative), essive -na...

the partitive plurals of kana 'hen' and lakana 'bedsheet' still show distinct treatment of the original *-ta (kanoja, lakanoita), the partitive singulars...

English the; an indefinite article, corresponding to English a/an; and a partitive article, used roughly like some in English. The French definite article...

nominative or genitive in object positions (where they do not take the partitive). This differs from the more traditional view, to which many learners'...

dual number in addition to singular and plural. The genitive was used partitively and in compounds and kennings (e.g., Urðarbrunnr, 'the well of Urðr' ;...

Estonian.) To form teens, toista is added to the base number. Toista is the partitive form of toinen, meaning "second group of ten". Hyphens are written here...

rules The plural of the articles un, unna, does not exist. Instead, the partitive is used, consisting of the articulated forms of the preposition de, or...

proposes the stem /vete/ (with stem final -e), which when combined with the partitive singular affix -tä/-ta drops the -e to become vet-tä (sg. part.). This...

for: Partitive objects: No n'he visto como aquello ("I haven't seen anything like that", literally 'Not (of it) I have seen like that'). Partitive subjects:...

money" An equivalent construction exists using the word ilman and the partitive: ilman rahaa "without money" or, less commonly: rahaa ilman "without money"...

genitive singular noren /norʲen/, partitive plural norid /norʲid/ nor /nor/ ("rope"), genitive singular noran /norɑn/, partitive plural norid /norid/ (or /norɨd/)...

all in the plural. The partitive is only used in the singular and can be replaced by the genitive in most cases. The partitive marker is -d. 1. It appears...

accusative/genitive case and in Finnish and Estonian the singular noun is in the partitive case, such that the number points to a part of a larger mass, like "four...

including the partitive singular, genitive plural, infinitive and various passive forms. Finnish examples are vesi "water", partitive vettä (< *vetetä)...

chroneme marks the partitive in many words. puhun suomea — puhun suomee "I speak Finnish" pitkiä — pitkii "(some) long (things)"; partitive plural of pitkä...