English-Finnish translations for ablative absolute

• ablatiivinen absoluutti

Definition of ablative absolute

• A construction in Latin and Oscan and Umbrian 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

Related words

• ablative
• ablative case
• loose ablative