Usage examples you wouldn't expect to find in a dictionary

[pauamma]

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[muckefuck]

In high school, my chain-smoking composition teacher used as an example of an adverbial relative clause, "This is the place where I always hide the bodies."

[pikku_gen]

Oh, that brings back memories... On our French syntax class the teacher demonstrated one use of partitive by a sentence "J'ai écrasé notre chat ce matin et il y avait du chat partout sur le pare-brise". Then she laughed a little awkwardly and said "Linguists have a notoriously bad sense of humour, never mind."

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[runa27]

I don't speak French, so all I've caught is "cat". Somebody care to translate?

[pne]

"I ran over our cat this morning and there was cat all over the windscreen".

Showing the partitive use of "cat": it wasn't that there was *a* cat on the windscreen, but there was simply "lots of cat" there: there was "cat all over the wind screen".

Which in French uses the partitive article du.

[runa27]

Ah XD

Thanks for the translation!