noun
partitive article
Linguistics term for articles like French 'du', 'de la', used to indicate an indefinite quantity of a mass noun.
フランス語の「du」は部分冠詞と呼ばれる。
The French 'du' is called a partitive article.
General term for 'article'; 部分冠詞 specifically refers to the partitive article.
Compound of 部分 (part) and 冠詞 (article), a calque from Western grammatical terminology.