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Meanings of ablative case in English

Portuguese
caso ablativo
Catalan
ablatiu

The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb.

caso ablativo
Russian
исходный падеж
Portuguese
caso ablativo
Spanish
caso ablativo
Catalan
cas ablatiu

Grammatical case.

Related terms
исходный падеж
Usage of ablative case in English
1
Question: Which is the most "beastly plague," a cattle-plague case for a farmer, or the ablative case for a school-boy?
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son
2
"Exempli gratia", he calls the ablative case "the quare-quale-quidditive case!"
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1