In Latin, there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.
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Ablative
//ˈæb.lə.tɪv//
Synonyms for "ablative" (28 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀφαιρετικός adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Basque
1 entries- ablatibo adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Bulgarian
2 entries- отделителен adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
- творителен adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Catalan
1 entries- ablatiu adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 奪格 /夺格 adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
- 離格 /离格 adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Esperanto
1 entries- ablativa adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Finnish
1 entries- ablatiivinen adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
French
1 entries- ablatif adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
German
1 entries- ablativisch adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Greek
1 entries- αφαιρετικός adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Italian
1 entries- ablativo adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Japanese
1 entries- 奪格 adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Latin
1 entries- ablātīvus adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Manx
1 entries- gowaltagh adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ablativ adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
- ablativisk adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Old English
1 entries- ætbreġdendlīċ adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Polish
1 entries- ablatywny adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Portuguese
1 entries- ablativo adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Romagnol
1 entries- ablatìv adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Romanian
1 entries- ablativ adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Russian
1 entries- абляти́вный adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Spanish
1 entries- ablativo adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Swedish
1 entries- ablativ adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Welsh
1 entries- abladol adj (applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language)
Sample sentences
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The ablative plural of "rosa" is "rosis".
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As Paul says, it is really perfectly gratuitous ("es ist im grunde reine willkur") to call the case we have in German (and Old English) a dative, for besides the functions of the dative it fulfils the functions of the old locative, ablative, and instrumental.
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Different verbs can have objects in the accusative or a different case (e.g. the dative or the ablative).
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