English Explanatory Dictionary

partitive article

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

partitive article partitive articles
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