In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

Nouns in the Latin ablative case ( ablativus ) are mainly used adverbially to modify verbs.

The ablative case has 15 uses, descending from three Proto-Indo-European cases: ablative ( from ), instrumental ( with ), and locative ( in / at ).

In Ancient Greek, there was no ablative case ; its functions were taken by the genitive, so that the genitive had functions belonging to the Proto-Indo-European genitive and ablative cases.

As in Ancient Greek, the functions of the ablative case in Serbian are performed by the genitive case.

The ablative case is found in Albanian where it is the fifth case and is called rasa rrjedhore.

The ablative case in Sanskrit is the fifth case ( panchami ) in the grammar, and has similar function to that of Latin.

In the Western Armenian language, the ablative case is rendered by the suffix-e ( indefinite ) or-en ( definite ).

In Armenian, the ablative case has several uses.

* The ablative case is also important to comparative statements in colloquial Armenian.

* The ablative case is also important to case government with postpositions.

In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning " from, off, of ", e. g. pöytä – pöydältä " table – off from the table ".

The ablative case in Hungarian is used to describe movement away from a solid object.

* What is the ablative case?

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

Medieval codices are constructed in " gathers " which are folded ( compare " folio ", " leaf, page " ablative case of Latin folium ), then stacked together like a newspaper and sewn together at the fold.

The literal translation would be " at first face " or " at first appearance ", from the feminine form of primus (" first ") and facies (" face "), both in the ablative case.

* Some forms of movement disorders ( advanced Parkinson's disease, chorea ) this involves the use of specially developed minimally invasive stereotactic techniques ( functional, stereotactic neurosurgery ) such as ablative surgery and deep brain stimulation surgery

# ablative ( separation, source, cause, start point of movement )

The name " ablative " derives from the Latin ablatus, the ( irregular ) perfect passive participle of auferre " to carry away ".

Of three forms of genitive in Serbian, namely partitive, possessive and ablative, the noun in the ablative genitive marks the origin of something, so as departure or detachment from it.

* nautā ( ablative ) " by / with / from / in sailor " various uses not covered by the above ( e. g. sum altior nautā I am taller than the sailor ).

This isotope of radioactive iodine used for ablative treatment is more potent than diagnostic radioiodine ( usually iodine-123 or a very low amount of iodine-131 ), which has a biological half life from 8 – 13 hours.

The word originates from the Latin loco – " from a place ", ablative of locus, " place " + Medieval Latin motivus, " causing motion ", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

Latin Annus ( a 2nd declension masculine noun ; annum is the accusative singular ; anni is genitive singular and nominative plural ; anno the dative and ablative singular ) is from a PIE noun, which also yielded Gothic aþnam " year ".

In space, a lightcraft would need to provide this gas itself from onboard tanks or from an ablative solid.

The partitive case comes from the older ablative case.

Currently, interest in the neurosurgical treatment of mental illness is shifting from ablative psychosurgery ( where the aim is to destroy brain tissue ) to deep brain stimulation ( DBS ) where the aim is to stimulate areas of the brain with implanted electrodes.

There are a large number of cases: absolutive (- Ø ), ergative (- e ), genitive (-( a ) k ), dative / allative (" to, for ") (- r ( a ) for human nouns ,-e for non-human nouns ), locative (" in, at ") (- a, only with non-human nouns ), comitative (- da ), equative (" as, like ") (- gin ), directive / adverbial (" towards ") (- š ( e )), ablative (" from ") (- ta, only with non-human nouns ).

For example, ' in ' takes the ablative case when expressing location, as in " He is in Italy ," but takes the accusative case when it is expressing motion, such as " He went into Italy.

The available corpus of Utopian texts allows us to identify at least three cases for nouns ( nominative, accusative, and ablative ), and at least two tenses for verbs ( present and past ).

However, the gerund is only ever seen in the accusative form (" ndum "), genitive form (" ndi "), dative form (" ndo ") or ablative form (" ndo ") ( see Latin conjugation.

Solus Christus ( Latin: " Christ alone "), sometimes referred to in the ablative case as Solo Christo (" by Christ alone "), is one of the five solas that summarise the Protestant Reformers ' basic belief that salvation is through Christ alone and that Christ is the only mediator between God and man, see also New Covenant.

** In this use, the ablative can also be used with infinitives and participles.

The Finnish ablative is also used in time expressions to indicate start times as well as with verbs expressing feelings or emotions.

The Finnish ablative has the ending-lta or-ltä according to the regular rules of vowel harmony.

The ablative in Azeri () is expressed through the suffixes-dan or-dən.

The ablative in Turkish (- den hali or uzaklaşma hali ) is expressed through the suffixes-den ,-dan ,-ten, or-tan.

In some situations simple ablative can have a ” because of ” meaning, in these situations ablative can be optionally followed by ” dolayı ” ( because of ) preposition.

Phenolic resins have been commonly used in ablative heat shields.

* ( ablative ) " man " various uses not covered by the above ( e. g., I am taller than the man ).

Sanskrit has eight cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, locative and instrumental.