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- The partitive article belongs to the paradigm of du.
It is a compound unit de + definite article,
with du as fused form of de + le.
Given X an article,
If X belongs to the paradigm of du, X is a partitive article.
- du /pos=article & type=partitive lait
- de la /pos=article & type=partitive confiture
- de l' /pos=article & type=partitive eau
Notice that we decided to consider des always as indefinite article, and not in some contextes as
partitive article, because it is not obvious to handle the
disambiguisation between an indefinite and a partitive article.
- Je mange de la /type=part salade et des /type=indf haricots.