Part-Whole Relation
What is it part of?
含义
A relation where one thing is a part, member, ingredient, section, surface, feature, or component of another.
如何识别
Ask whether one entity belongs structurally inside another.
示例
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.
语言视角
在母语中
Part-whole relations are commonly expressed with 的 de or noun-noun structures, and spatial parts often use localizer words.
房子的门开着。
fángzi de mén kāi zhe = house DE door open ZHE
在目标语言中
Part-whole relations are often simple noun sequences, sometimes with của for clarity or emphasis.
Mái nhà bị hỏng.
roof house passive broken
Learners may translate every of with của even when a noun sequence is natural.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.