4.2. Gramatik / Grammar

Partitive

The partitive is the case generally used for the object. Certain postpositions are only used with the partitive, e.g., Või sa ārmastõd mīnda? ’Do you love me?’. The partitive is also the partial subject case, e.g., Vietā u’m je’nnõ ’There is a lot of water’, and partial object case, e.g., Vanāǟma kūjastiz lešti ’Grandmother dried the flounders’. 

The use of the singular partitive endings –dā, –tā, –da, –ta, –ţa, –dõ, –tõ, –t, –õ, –i depends largely on the structure of the stem. The use of the plural partitive endings –di, –ḑi, –ti, –ţi, –i depends on the final sounds of the stem or the nominative/genitive plural form.