Patitive articles
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Gregory Haley
May 9, 2013, 5:39:34 PM5/9/13
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Buongiorno miei amici!
We were really curious about clarifying the usage of partitive articles. One confusion is that they appear much like prepositional articles, but they're not.
There is a really good distinction. You use their singular form for describing some part of something uncountable and their singular form for describing some part of something countable.
Berrei volentieri del vino: I would gladly drink some wine.
and
Ho trovato dei fichi a pocco prezzo: I found some cheap figs.
and
Vorrei delle mele, degli spinaci, e del pomodori: I'd like apples, spinach, and tomatoes.
Examples are from the articles in the links below:
About.com: http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-partitive-articles.htm
Corso d'italiano: http://www.italian-online.de/grammar/chapter6/6_9_4_partitive_article.htm
ciao!
gregory.
We were really curious about clarifying the usage of partitive articles. One confusion is that they appear much like prepositional articles, but they're not.
There is a really good distinction. You use their singular form for describing some part of something uncountable and their singular form for describing some part of something countable.
Berrei volentieri del vino: I would gladly drink some wine.
and
Ho trovato dei fichi a pocco prezzo: I found some cheap figs.
and
Vorrei delle mele, degli spinaci, e del pomodori: I'd like apples, spinach, and tomatoes.
Examples are from the articles in the links below:
About.com: http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-partitive-articles.htm
Corso d'italiano: http://www.italian-online.de/grammar/chapter6/6_9_4_partitive_article.htm
ciao!
gregory.
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