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ABLATIVE CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ablative case mean? 

ABLATIVE CASE (noun)
  The noun ABLATIVE CASE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ABLATIVE CASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ABLATIVE CASE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ablative; ablative case

Hypernyms ("ablative case" is a kind of...):

oblique; oblique case (any grammatical case other than the nominative)


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