50 Examples of Partitive Adjectives

Partitive Adjectives and Multiples

The partitive adjectives They are adjectives that express the proportion or fraction of a whole indicated by a noun. For example: a quarter, a half, a third.

Partitive adjectives are characterized by always going before the noun (with which they must agree in gender and number), unlike what happens with other types of adjectives, such as adjectives, which can come before or after the noun.

Partitive adjectives also include multiples adjectives (which also indicate a fraction of a whole, but greater than 1), which can come before or after the noun. For example: double, triple.

The general form of the partitives that designate fractions greater than ten responds to the ending -avo / -ava. However, the most used are those that designate fractions less than ten, such as middle, third, fourth, or those ending in -th, like hundredth.

Partitive adjectives, ordinal Y cardinal are part of the category of numeral adjectives. Partitive adjectives, also known as dividing adjectives, are often confused with ordinals, which are those that refer to numerical order (

first, eighth, last), and many times an ordinal is wrongly used instead of a partitive (for example, it is wrong to say one eleventh of the voters instead of an eleventh of the voters).

Partitive Nouns

Besides partitive adjectives there are also partitive nouns. In semantic terms these two categories are similar (since they both refer to a proportion or fraction of a total), however they are different in syntactic terms.

Its partitive nouns place the fraction as the core of the phrase (which can be a subject, a direct complement, etc.) and its referent as a indirect modifier always introduced by the subordinate nexus “from”. For example: The half of course students left before June.

Its partitive adjectives actuan always as direct modifiers of a noun. For example: Half course left before June.

Examples of partitive adjectives

The following list orders the partitive adjectives, placing in some cases an example of their application.

Examples of multiple adjectives

Examples of sentences with partitive adjectives and multiples

Partitive adjectives in bold are highlighted in the following sentences:

1. I took quarter liter of that wine almost without noticing it.
2. Carlos ate half pizza before we arrived.
3. Three quarters parts of the population are unaware of this problem.
4. A fifth part of the candidates running for this election have already held elective positions.
5. I recommend the hamburger triple with onion rings.
6. The sixth part of the sown area could not be harvested due to the heavy rains.
7. A tenth fraction of the money collected will be used to compensate the victims.
8. Today I want to carry only half kilo of apples
9. Almost the two thirds parts of the earth's surface are covered by water.
10. It is calculated that each photon travels the path in one hundred thousandth minute
11. A seventh of the students in this course will fail if they do not study harder in this semester.
12. For me, double serving of cream in the coffee, please.
13. Five sixths of everything that enters for now is reinvested
14. The twentieth section of this circle represents aliens.
15. Almost two-thirds of your family lives abroad, right?
16. At least three quarters what you have said is false and malicious.
17. This equipment is amazing: it processes each sample in one ten thousandth second.
18. One eighth of respondents did not remember the name of any candidate
19. This beer is triple malt: it is very rich, but it is very fattening.
20. A fifteenth of the total budget will correspond to administrative expenses.

Other kinds of adjectives