Talk:Partitive case

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what about French? I remember studying an "article partitif". "J'ai des bouteilles de vin," I have some bottles of wine. "des" is a contraction of "de" + "les", "de" being "of" and "les" being plural for "the". The use of "des" as opposed to simply "les" is to identify this as a partitive case, I think... because "J'ai les bouteilles de vin" would mean you had all the bottles of wine in the world. Someone with more knowledge than I, please contribute? glasperlenspiel 03:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I think you're right about it, except that it's not a partitive case (since there aren't cases in French) but a partitive function expressed by other means, see Partitive. Adam78 12:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello everyone! I think it'd be great if we created a site devoted to declension and conjugation in various languages, where a script, linked to a database, would generate the appropriate forms, depending on the input. What do you think? Petusek

Such systems are very complex. An encyclopedia isn't the right platform. --Vuo 17:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

A kind of such site already exists, see Verbix. Adam78 19:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

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