Ablative case
WordNet
noun
(1) The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
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Etymology
French ablatif < Latin ablativus < ablatus ("carried away") < auferre ("to carry away", "to remove"). See ablation.
Noun
ablative case
- : 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 Armenian, Dyirbal, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Inuktitut, Latin, Quechua, Sanskrit, and Yup'ik.