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A partitive is a grammar word for a word (or a short group of words) that sits in front of a noun and shows you mean only part of it, not the whole. In “some of the cake,” some is a partitive: you are not talking about all the cake. Other common partitives in English are a piece of, a bit of, a lot of, any, most of. The same idea can be an adjective: a partitive construction. It is a teacher’s word; in class you may just hear “words like some and any.” In a few other languages, partitive is also the name of a case — an ending on the noun — but English does this with extra words, not with an ending. It is not the same as partial, which just means “not complete.”
部分詞（文法用語，如 some of the cake 裡的 some）
組成Inherited from Middle English partitif, borrowed from Medieval Latin partītīvus, from Latin partītus (“divided”) + -īvus (an ending that makes adjectives).
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- partthe same idea of a piece, not the whole
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
partitiveadj/ˈpɑː.tə.tɪv/
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That divides something into parts.
- partitive tendencies in education
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsIndicating a part rather than the whole of something.
- The word some is used in partitive constructions.
partitivenoun/ˈpɑː.tə.tɪv/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA partitive word, phrase or case.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。