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partitive
/ ˈɑːɪɪ /
adjective
grammar indicating that a noun involved in a construction refers only to a part or fraction of what it otherwise refers to. The phrase some of the butter is a partitive construction; in some inflected languages it would be translated by the genitive case of the noun
serving to separate or divide into parts
noun
grammar a partitive linguistic element or feature
Other 51Թ Forms
- partitively adverb
- unpartitive adjective
- ˈ貹پپ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of partitive1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of partitive1
Example Sentences
All is used with of, like a partitive; as, all of a thing, all of us.
It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwæt.
The partitive article is used precisely as in French.
Dr. Johnson seems to suppose that the partitive use of these words makes them nouns; as, "They have much of the poetry of Mecænas, but little of his liberality."—DRYDEN: in Joh.
These three parts are: first, nouns—the names of things; second, verbs—the names of events; and, third, the partitives—or the words which express the relations of things to events.
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