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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Avestan
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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Armenian
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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Tocharian, not so common
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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
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noun
an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
rarely in Middle High German
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History
Calque of Latin genitīvus absolūtus.
Across languages
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