ablative case

English

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Etymology

From French ablatif, from Latin ablativus, from ablatus (“carried away”), past participle of auferre (“to carry away", "to remove”). See ablation.

Noun

ablative case (plural ablative cases)

1. (grammar) A case used in some languages to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation, source. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "of", "from", "away from", and "concerning".

Translations

grammar case used to indicate movement away from something, removal, separation, source

• Armenian: բացառական հոլով (hy) (bac'aṙakan holov)
• Bulgarian: аблативен падеж (bg) (ablatíven padéž) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奪格 (cmn), 夺格 (cmn) (duógé)

• Czech: ablativ (cs) m
• Danish: ablativ (da) c
• Dutch: ablatief (nl) m
• Faroese: ablativ (fo) n
• Finnish: ulkoeronto (fi), ablatiivi (fi)
• French: ablatif (fr) m
• German: Ablativ (de) m
• Greek: αφαιρετική πτώσις (el) (aphairetikí ptósis) f
• Hebrew: אבלטיבי (he) (ablativi) m
• Icelandic: sviftifall (is) n
• Interlingua: ablative (ia)

• Italian: ablativo (it) m
• Japanese: 奪格 (ja) (だっかく, dakkaku)
• Latin: casus ablativus (la) m
• Novial: ablative
• Polish: ablatyw (pl) m
• Portuguese: ablativo (pt) m
• Russian: аблятивный падеж (ru) (abljatívnyj padéž) m, аблятив (ru) (abljatív) m, аблатив (ru) (ablatív) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аблатив (sh) m

  Roman: ablativ (sh) m

• Spanish: ablativo (es) m
• Swedish: ablativ (sv) c
• Telugu: పంచమీ విభక్తి (te) (pan̄camī vibhakti)
• Turkish: -den hâli (tr)

Derived terms

• ablative absolute

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases