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Partitive   Listen
Partitive

adjective
1.
(Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole.
2.
Indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts.
3.
Serving to separate or divide into parts.  Synonym: separative.  "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
noun
1.
Word (such a 'some' or 'less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole.





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... after the preposition de, similar to the ordinary participial or adjectival use, as in the expression: Il n'y a que vous de serieux. Compare "Je n'ai qu'elle de fille" (Moliere, le Medecin malgre lui, II, 4). These, and similar expressions, are an outgrowth of the partitive genitive, usually found after an indefinite: II n'y a rien de nouveau (that is to say, parmi les choses nouvelles). Quelque chose de nouveau. Qu'y a-t-il de nouveau? Cent soldats de prisonniers. Y a-t-il personne d'assez hardi? etc. Compare ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux


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