loose ablative

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|grammar}} A [[syntactic]] construction which uses the [[past participle]], inflected in the [[ablative]] case, without an [[auxiliary]] verb yet not as an adjective, but silently supposing a verb to depend upon.

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