Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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We know about the genitive case, which is used to describe specification or possession. Then there is the genitive of the whole, or genitive partitive. This is used with words denoting a part, when we want to describe a portion of something. Let's check it out!

Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.

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