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

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

liburu-rantz liburu-e-ta-rantz liburu-tarantz Terminative (up to) liburu-raino liburu-e-ta-raino liburu-taraino Prolative liburu-tzat Partitive liburu-rik...

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...

Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. The...

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...

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

genitive case when it is translated into Latin. It also indicates the partitive, in which the material is quantified: "a group of people"; "a number of...

with an ending ntA (combined from the ending nA of essive and tA of partitive) is suggested, meaning "from the role of", thus making the system of locational...

nouns and adjectives decline in fourteen cases: nominative, genitive, partitive, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative...

English slang synonym "veg" is a mass noun. In languages that have a partitive case, the distinction is explicit and mandatory. For example, in Finnish...

which is formed by adding -m to the end of the plural partitive case. For sinine the plural partitive form is siniseid and so siniseim is the short superlative...

is always used with vrouw) Adjectives have a special form called the partitive that is used after an indefinite pronoun such as iets 'something', niets...

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; Lokasenna...

in dēspērātiōne omnium salūtis "in everyone's despair of being saved". Partitive genitives usually follow the noun: magna pars mīlitum. "the majority of...

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:...