Partitive

The partitive is a case (case ) in some languages ​​, for example in Finnish and Estonian.

This form of declension of a noun, adjective, pronoun or Numerales is in German unknown. You can think about its meaning as very similar to the accusative, because the partitive expresses the object of the activity of, in contrast to the accusative the activity is in the partitive, however, based only on one part of the object. This difference can also be expressed in English or in German sometimes mitverstehbar.

The noun form of the nominatives without the article (eg, " car", "houses" as opposed to " the cars ", " houses " ) is often erroneously referred against German learners as Partitivform. However, this does not form a complete Partitivfall how knows him about the Finnish language, but often corresponds to its functions. In many cases, the partitive meaning can be illustrated "from" (or "off") by the preposition. "I drink the water " ( atelisch ) in Ggs to. " Do not drink the water ", "I read from the book. " in Ggs " I read the book [done ]. " ( telic ).

Function in comparison with the accusative:

• At some point, the name, partitive ' used as a synonym for the French or Italian partitive article, but this is not correct, sometimes even misleading, because it is not a case.
• In the Balto - Slavic languages ​​often fulfilled the function of the genitive Partitivs so in lithuanian you duok vandens ( give me water, literally, of the water).
• In the Macedonian one prepositional phrase is used, eg дај ми од тие јаболки ( give me these apples ).
• In Serbian such a form is officially called a partitive genitive, eg Сипај кафе! ( Tavern coffee ).
• In some languages, the partitive is used as a number not as a case.