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Etymology
French ablatif < Latin ablativus < ablatus ("carried away") < auferre ("to carry away", "to remove"). See Ablation.

Noun
ablative case

1. grammar: 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, Estonian, Hungarian, Inuktitut, Latin, Quechua, Sanskrit, and Yup'ik.

Translations

Bosnian: t-|bs|ablativ|m
Bulgarian: абла�ивен падеж (ablatíven padéž) m
Croatian: t-|hr|ablativ|m
Dutch: ablatief m
Finnish: t+|fi|ulkoeronto, t+|fi|ablatiivi
French: ablatif m
German: Ablativ m
Greek: α�αι�ε�ική ����ι� (aphairetikí ptósis) f
Hebrew: ������� (ablativi) m
Icelandic: t+|is|sviftifall|n
Interlingua: ablative
Italian: t+|it|ablativo|m
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Japanese: 奪格 (����, dakkaku)
Latin: casus ablativus m
Novial: ablative
Portuguese: t+|pt|ablativo|m
Russian: абл��ивн�й падеж (abljatívnyj padéž) m
Spanish: t+|es|ablativo|m

Derived terms
ablative absolute

See also
Appendix:Grammatical cases

fr:ablative case

• 2007-11-13 10:06 - Tbot - updated t/t-/t+ templates, added t for fi, it, pt, es

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