ablative absolute

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.soʊˈlut/

Noun

ablative absolute (plural ablative absolutes)

1. (linguistics) A construction in Latin in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

Translations

• Dutch: losse ablatief

See also

• Ablative absolute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia