partitive

The partitive is the second most common case in Finnish.

See also more information about the French partitive article.

For example, the partitive must always be used after singular numerals.

For example, the partitive would be used in both of the following sentences:

There are two types of negation when a sentence is in partitive case.

The partitive is only used in the singular and can always be replaced by the genitive.

In languages that have a partitive case, the distinction is explicit and mandatory.

The genitive has been replacing the partitive for some time and is nowadays more commonly used in its place.

The consonant stem of a noun (if any) comes from the partitive singular.

The partitive case comes from the older ablative case.

The French partitive article is often translated as some, but often simply omitted in English.

Partitive nouns are never definite, so the two articles never co-occur.

Articles have three forms: definite, indefinite, and partitive.

Partitive articles are used with mass nouns.

The partitive article takes the following forms:

French has three articles: definite, indefinite, and partitive.

(The singular may be considered as partitive here.)

Placed side by side as tiny dots, in partitive color mixing, complementary colors appear grey.

Furthermore, even older labels had the original name in the partitive as "(some) liquor of Koskenkorva".

An equivalent construction exists using the word ilman and the partitive:

In prepositional phrases the noun is always in the partitive:

The partitive case, developed from the ablative, was a later innovation by Fennic languages.

For incomplete actions and ongoing processes whose ending or end result is unknown (the partitive object):

As was pointed out above, the partitive expression"one of the ministers' is tied to the initial reference in (i).

The short superlative form is made up by adding "-m" to the end of plural partitive case.