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When to Use Partitive Case?

James H. Sterling • • 6 min read
When to Use Partitive Case?

When you're dealing with an indefinite amount of something, you will use the partitive case. This is especially common with mass nouns

mass nouns
In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, or non-count noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. ... Mass nouns have no concept of singular and plural, although in English they take singular verb forms.
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(ainesana). For example, the word maito (milk) is a mass nouns because we can't count it in units. We can't say “one milk, two milks”.

What is a partitive example?

A partitive noun is a noun that is used to describe a part or quantity of something. Partitive nouns are used with another noun to tell you how much of that noun there is. "Boxes" in "three boxes of cereal" is a partitive noun because it describes a specific quantity of cereal.

What is the partitive case in Russian?

The partitive genitive in Russian is used when we talk about having part of something. When we talk about eating bread, we (usually) don't mean we eat the entire loaf of bread. Russian also has to make this distinction, and so puts the object into the genitive. Он съел хлеба.

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