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Partitive plural is a grammatical number that is used to modify a noun which represents a part of some whole amount, as opposed to the comprehensive plural, used when the noun represents the total amount of something.

It can be found in partitive case in Finnish. One of its uses in Finnish is to express a part of a larger object, or a subset of a group of several objects.

An example in Finnish would be the difference between the use of partitive and accusative:

Finnish examples
Phrase	Case	Translation	Literal meaning
Minä syön omenaa.	Part. sing.	I am eating an apple.	I am eating a part of an apple.
Minä syön omenan.	Acc. sing.	I eat an apple.	I eat a whole apple.
Minä söin omenia.	Part. pl.	I was eating apples.	I was eating some apples.
Minä söin omenat.	Acc. pl.	I ate apples.	I ate the whole set of apples.

Finnish influenced J.R.R. Tolkien in inventing his fictional language Quenya, being present in that language as one of four grammatical numbers in Quenya, the others being singular, dual, and plural.^[1]

References

^ "Eldamo : Quenya : partitive plural". eldamo.org. Retrieved 2024-01-16.

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[1] "Eldamo : Quenya : partitive plural". eldamo.org. Retrieved 2024-01-16.

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-'''Partitive plural''' is a [[grammatical number]] that may have been invented by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] for his [[constructed language|fictional language]], [[Quenya]]. It refers to more than one object that is nevertheless only part of a larger number; for example, three out of four of something. It is one of four numbers in Quenya, the others being [[singular (grammatical number)|singular]], [[dual (grammatical number)|dual]] and [[plural]].
+'''Partitive plural''' is a [[grammatical number]] that is used to modify a noun which represents a part of some whole amount, as opposed to the [[comprehensive plural]], used when the noun represents the total amount of something.
-{{stub}}
+It can be found in [[partitive case]] in [[Finnish language|Finnish]]. One of its uses in Finnish is to express a part of a larger object, or a subset of a group of several objects.
+An example in Finnish would be the difference between the use of partitive and accusative:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Finnish examples
+!Phrase
+!Case
+!Translation
+!Literal meaning
+|-
+|Minä syön omenaa.
+|Part. sing.
+|I am eating an apple.
+|I am eating a part of an apple.
+|-
+|Minä syön omenan.
+|Acc. sing.
+|I eat an apple.
+|I eat a whole apple.
+|-
+|Minä söin omenia.
+|Part. pl.
+|I was eating apples.
+|I was eating some apples.
+|-
+|Minä söin omenat.
+|Acc. pl.
+|I ate apples.
+|I ate the whole set of apples.
+|}
+Finnish influenced [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] in inventing his [[constructed language|fictional language]] [[Quenya]], being present in that language as one of four grammatical numbers in Quenya, the others being [[singular (grammatical number)|singular]], [[dual (grammatical number)|dual]], and [[plural]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eldamo : Quenya : partitive plural |url=https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1164934417.html |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=eldamo.org}}</ref>
+==See also==
+*[[Partitive]]
+== References ==
+{{Reflist}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Partitive Plural}}
+== Links ==
+* [https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-grammar/finnish-cases/grammatical-cases/the-partitive-plural-monikon-partitiivi Article about usage of the partitive case in the plural in Finnish]
+{{grammar-stub}}
+[[Category:Grammatical number]]