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Introduction to the ablative case from a 1903 Latin textbook. In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced / ˈ æ b l ə t ɪ v / AB-lə-tiv; sometimes abbreviated abl) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars of various languages. It is used to indicate motion away from something, make comparisons, and serve ...
In Latin grammar, the ablative case (cāsus ablātīvus) is one of the six cases of nouns. Traditionally, it is the sixth case ( cāsus sextus, cāsus latīnus ). It has forms and functions derived from the Proto-Indo-European ablative , instrumental , and locative .
The oblique case is used exclusively with these 8 case-marking postpositions of Hindi-Urdu forming 10 grammatical cases, which are: ergative ने (ne), dative and accusative को (ko), instrumental and ablative से (se), genitive का (kā), inessive में (mẽ), adessive पे (pe), terminative तक (tak), semblative सा (sā).
The preposition determines the case that is used, with some prepositions allowing different cases depending on the meaning. For example, Latin in takes the accusative case when it indicates motion (English "into") and the ablative case when it indicates position (English "on" or "inside"): in urbem = "into the city" (accusative)
This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example of it, and then finally what language(s) the case is used in.
Ablative : rēge : 'with the king' (also 'by, from, in') (A small line, called a macron, over a vowel indicates that it is pronounced long.) Another case is the locative, which is used mostly with the names of cities (e.g. Rōmae 'in Rome') and a very limited number of ordinary nouns (e.g. domī 'at home').
Dative case is used here to show that Rāma is the receiver of the reverence. Rāmānnāsti parāyaṇaṃ parataraṃ Ablative There is no better support than Rāma. The declension here is Rāmāt that has undergone sandhi with nāsti. Ablative case is also used for comparisons in Sanskrit Rāmasya dāso’smyahaṃ Genitive I am a servant of ...
Old English had an instrumental case, but not a locative or prepositional. Blake argues that it is "doubtful that the hierarchy can be extended much further", but does suggest that the most common cases not listed in the hierarchy are the comitative , purposive , allative , perlative and comparative .