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Noun: ablative case
  1. The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
    "In Latin, 'cum amicis' (with friends) uses the ablative case";
    - ablative

Derived forms: ablative cases

Type of: oblique, oblique case

Encyclopedia: Ablative case