partitive articles

A form of partitive article — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of partitive article
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