Meanings
nounloose ablative (plural loose ablatives)
plural loose ablatives
- grammarA syntactic construction which uses the past participle, inflected in the ablative case, without an auxiliary verb yet not as an adjective, but silently supposing a verb to depend upon.
Translations
Dutch losse ablatief
- losse ablatiefsyntactic construction
Polish luźny ablatyw
- luźny ablatywsyntactic construction
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