Definition of partitive in English:
partitive
adjective ˈpɑːtɪtɪvˈpɑrdədɪv
Grammar Denoting a grammatical construction used to indicate that only a part of a whole is referred to, for example a slice of bacon, a series of accidents, some of the children.
Example sentencesExamples
- As a result, you need which in what is called the partitive construction, which makes the set to be picked from explicit: you say Which of these jackets is yours?
- Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven.
noun ˈpɑːtɪtɪvˈpɑrdədɪv
Grammar 1A partitive construction.
Example sentencesExamples
- The interest in the partitive and the material we find in Herrick's poems on women's clothing and appurtenances finds a pictorial complement in the oeuvre of Hollar.
- Each readily lends itself to use in a partitive: each of the children, where the children limits the reference mass to an identifiable set of children.
- 1.1 A noun or pronoun used as the first term in a partitive construction.
Derivatives
adverb
Grammar But they do so independently, partitively, concurrently, and differentially.
Definition of partitive in US English:
partitive
adjectiveˈpärdədivˈpɑrdədɪv
Grammar (of a grammatical construction or case) referring to only a part of a whole, for example a slice of bacon, a series of accidents, some of the children.
Example sentencesExamples
- Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven.
- As a result, you need which in what is called the partitive construction, which makes the set to be picked from explicit: you say Which of these jackets is yours?
nounˈpärdədivˈpɑrdədɪv
Grammar 1A partitive construction.
Example sentencesExamples
- The interest in the partitive and the material we find in Herrick's poems on women's clothing and appurtenances finds a pictorial complement in the oeuvre of Hollar.
- Each readily lends itself to use in a partitive: each of the children, where the children limits the reference mass to an identifiable set of children.
- 1.1 A noun or pronoun used as the first term in a partitive construction.