The partitive article is similar to the indefinite article but used for uncountable singular nouns.
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Partitive articles are used with mass nouns.
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Of the Indo-European languages, Northern Italian, although among the Romance languages, has a similar pattern, using the preposition " di " + article, called " articolo partitivo " ( partitive article ).
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Haida has a partitive article ( suffixed "-gyaa " ) referring to " part of something or . . . to one or more objects of a given group or category, " e . g ., " tluugyaa uu hal tlaahlaang " " he is making a boat ( a member of the category of boats ) ."
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Also note that in the plural, and after a negative verb, the indefinite and partitive articles take the same form; this makes sense, as there is no clear difference in meaning in these cases . ( Some grammarians actually classify " des " as either exclusively indefinite or exclusively partitive, and say that the other article has no plural form.
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Haida also has a partitive article " ", referring to " part of something or . . . to one or more objects of a given group or category, " e . g . " "'he is making a boat ( a member of the category of boats ) .'Partitive nouns are never definite, so the two articles never co-occur.
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Many northern French surnames ( especially in Normandy ) are used with the definite masculine article as a prefix ( Lefebvre, Lef�vre; a more archaic spelling is "'Le Febvre "'), with the partitive article as a prefix ( Dufaure ) in the south of France, or without article / prefix ( "'Favre "', "'Faure "') in the south of France, but the meaning is the same.
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