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The 'partitive' can refer to several things:

★ Partitive case

★ partitive meaning of noun phrases
The partitive refers to the selection of a part/quantity out of a group/amount. It is used for example in Estonian (the third case), in Latin, German and Russian, expressed by the genitive case, and in French, expressed with the preposition ''de'' (and its contracted forms).
Examples (with the partitive marked in italics):

★ many ''of my friends''

★ the youngest ''of the children''

★ a glass ''of wine''.