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Ablative case
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English
Etymology
French ablatif < Latin ablativus < ablatus ("carried away") < auferre ("to carry away", "to remove"). See Ablation.
Noun
(grammatical terminology): case used to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation, source. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "from", "away from", and "concerning". Some languages that have the ablative case include Dyirbal, Finnish, Hungarian, Inuktitut, Latin, Quechua, Sanskrit, and Yup'ik.
Translations
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Derived Terms
- ablative absolute
See also
- Wiktionary Appendix:Grammatical cases
- Wikipedia article on the Ablative case
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