partitive article

English

Noun

Examples (sense 1)

Used in Haida -gyaa.

Used in Finnish and Estonian, in inflections.

Used in French and Italian in addition to definite and indefinite articles:

partitive article (plural partitive articles)

  2. (grammar) A type of article, sometimes viewed as a type of indefinite article, used with a mass noun such as water, to indicate a non-specific quantity of it; class of determiner, with the closest English equivalent being some.
    Hypernym: article

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