Re: A saga for translation

John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
>
> Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > What is this partitive particle that
> > we're supposed to ignore?
>
> Looks like it corresponds to French "du", and is attached
> to mass nouns to mean "an unspecified quantity of".
>
You got it right (partly). Sometimes it has that
function, that of _du_ or _des_ in French (I learned
that was called partitive so I call the particle like
that). See my reply to Sally for the rest.


--Pablo Flores