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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
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              Examples for "ablative"
              Examples for "ablative"
              1
              Paul, who had been wool-gathering, went back to nominative, dative, and ablative.
              Despair's Last Journey
              2
              It's called panis; genitive, pani; dative, pano; vocative, panus; ablative, pano.
              Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, E...
              3
              The ablation time is significantly shorter than other available ablative techniques.
              Pubmed
              4
              Following high-dose ablative therapy, two acute in-hospital treatment-related deaths were observed.
              Pubmed
              5
              Liver-directed, locally ablative procedures are recommended for patients with limited, nonresectable tumor burden.
              Pubmed
              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