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Genitive absolute
Meaning
Noun
●
In Grammar:
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
in Sanskrit
later
to the
locative
absolute
in Avestan
in Armenian
in Tocharian, not so common
in Middle Dutch,
early modern
Dutch and (vestigially)
modern
Dutch
rarely in Middle High German
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