The noun Soart ‘kind’ may refer to a specific class of things in a bare partitive construction:

The same remarks apply to the noun Oard ‘kind’, which also wavers between neuter and feminine gender. An example of its use in a sentence is given below:

It is also possible to join the kind noun to its content NP by means of the adposition fon ‘of’, as in the following example:

Note that the kind noun appears in the PP, whereas partitives normally feature the content noun inside a PP, in case a PP occurs inside the construction. The reason for the appearance of the preposition might be that the order of kind noun and content noun is reversed, so it seems that a different construction is involved, in which the content noun is outside the partitive construction itself, being fronted to the beginning of the middle field. The example makes it clear that the kind noun can be premodified by an AP and by an article. In addition, the kind noun regularly appears in the plural, as it does in examples like the following:

In the past, the noun Soart ‘kind’ remained in the singular following numerals, as in two Soart Hede ‘two kinds of heather’. Even in the sentence above, where the bracketed content noun is quite heavy, the two NPs in the partitive construction are not joined by the preposition fon ‘of’. Consider finally the following example, in which the content XP of the partitive construction is not a NP but a VP:

The to-infinitive is directly joined to the kind noun in this example.