ablative case
Pluralablative cases
- 1In some languages, the case of a noun that marks movement away from something, removal, or separation, roughly as English uses "of", "from", "away from" and "concerning".
In Latin, a noun that follows the preposition "ab" goes into the ablative case.
Turkish marks the ablative case with the suffix -den or -dan, so "evden" means "from the house."
Note
How much the case covers depends on the language. In its narrow use it marks only motion away, removal and separation; in Latin it also absorbed the work of older Indo-European instrumental, comitative and locative cases, so one ending can mean "by", "with", "at" or "in". English keeps separate ablative forms only in hence, thence and whence, set against hither, thither and whither for motion toward.
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