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diff --git a/rest_framework/relations.py b/rest_framework/relations.py
index a85edfec..66857a41 100644
--- a/rest_framework/relations.py
+++ b/rest_framework/relations.py
@@ -338,7 +338,12 @@ class ManyRelatedField(Field):
# We override the default field access in order to support
# lists in HTML forms.
if html.is_html_input(dictionary):
+ # Don't return [] if the update is partial
+ if self.field_name not in dictionary:
+ if getattr(self.root, 'partial', False):
+ return empty
return dictionary.getlist(self.field_name)
+
return dictionary.get(self.field_name, empty)
def to_internal_value(self, data):