Finnish indicates the partitive by inflecting nouns in the partitive case. The comparative inflects as an adjective in its own right, having inflected and partitive forms. The consonant stem of a noun (if any) comes from the partitive singular. The partitive case comes from the older ablative case. French has three articles&colon; definite, indefinite, and partitive. In addition, these can mark such distinctions as dualic, contrastive, partitive, and iterative. In modern Russian, use of the partitive case is often facultative. The list of these includes repetitive, cislocative, dualic, translocative, partitive, coincident, contrastive, and negative. This shows that aspect is stronger than quantity in conditioning the partitive. This is equivalent to adding "-t" to the partitive, and the same rules apply. The partitive form takes the ending "-s". Placed side-by-side as tiny dots, in partitive color mixing, complementary colors appear gray. In languages that have a partitive case, the distinction is explicit and mandatory.