1. relating to or denoting a part of a whole
Usage: grammar
2. expressing or indicating division or separation into parts
Usage: grammar; linguistics

1. a word or construction that expresses a part of a whole
Usage: grammar

Examples

• The partitive genitive is used in many languages to express quantity.
• In French, ‘du pain’ uses the partitive article meaning ‘some bread.’
• The word ‘some’ often functions as a partitive determiner.
• Partitive constructions help specify portions rather than complete amounts.
• The partitive case exists in Finnish and Estonian grammar.
• She studied partitive expressions in her linguistics class.