partitive article

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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: Italian Vuòi dell'àcqua? (“Would you like (some) water?”) French Veux-tu du café ? (“Do you want (some) coffee?”); see also: French articles and determiners § Partitive article on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Translations

article used with a mass noun

Norman: articl'ye partitive f Polish: przedimek cząstkowy m