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ablative absolute in German

ablative absolute in German is Ablativus absolutus.

ablative absolute in German

Ablativus absolutus
noun
(grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, 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.

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"ablative absolute" in German is Ablativus absolutus.

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