noun
- plural of ablative; grammatical cases that typically express separation, source, or means
Usage: grammar
Examples
- Latin has several different types of ablatives.
- Students struggled to identify the ablatives in the sentence.
- The ablatives in this text show various uses of the case.
- She marked all the ablatives with a red pen.
- The teacher explained how ablatives function in Latin grammar.
- These ablatives express the means by which the action was performed.