Speakur

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partitive article

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English

Syllables
par-ti-tive ar-ti-cle
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

partitive articles (plural)

Questions

What does partitive article mean?
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.

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