Part-Whole Relation
What is it part of?
المعنى
A relation where one thing is a part, member, ingredient, section, surface, feature, or component of another.
كيفية التعرّف عليه
Ask whether one entity belongs structurally inside another.
أمثلة
roof|hand|page|piece|member
the roof of the house|a piece of cake|part of the team
The roof of the house is red.
Visual guide
WHOLE └─ PART / member house └─ roof team └─ member Ask: part of what?
Same relation, different forms: English: roof of the house Genitive: house-GEN roof Compound: house-roof Partitive: piece of cake Not just ownership.
منظور اللغة
في اللغة الأم
Part-whole relations often use iḍāfa, similar in form to possession.
بابُ البيتِ مفتوح.
The door of the house is open.
في لغة التعلم
English uses of-phrases, possessive forms, and noun compounds for part-whole relations.
The roof of the house is old.
of the house = part-whole relation
Learners may overuse possessive 's or translate part-whole relations too literally.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.