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 Ablative Case In Latin, the ablative case is used to express adverbial prepositional phrases. Sometimes prepositions are used with the ablative case and sometimes they are not used.

Case indicators for 1st Declension Nouns in the Ablative Case:

 The following are ablative constructions:
 * Singular ||  ||  || Plural ||  ||  ||
 * -a || puella || from, by, with the girl || -is || puellis || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">from, by, with the girls ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-o || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">puero || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">from, by, with the boy || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-is || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">pueris || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">from, by, with the boys ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-e || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">arbore || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">from, by, with the tree || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-ibus || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">arboribus || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">from, by, with the trees ||

__**Ablative of Place Where**__

Ablative used with preposition //**in**//

Expresses place in which something is located.

Example: //**Roma est in Italia**//. Rome is in Italy.

Names of cities or small islands and a few other words expressing place do not need a preposition and instead use a special case called the locative case.

__**<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Ablative of Place from Which **__ <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Ablative used with preposition **//ab, de, ex//**

Expresses place from which something travels.

Example: **//Ex oppido properat//**. He is hurrying from town. Names of cities, towns or small islands and a few other words expressing place do not need a preposition and instead use a special case called the locative case.

<span style="display: block; font-size: 200%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">Locative Case

<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Names of cities, towns, small islands, etc. in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declensions express place where by the locative case.

Singular, 1st and 2nd Declensions: identical with the genitive forms


 * //Romae//**, at Rome
 * //domi//**, at home

Plural, 1st and 2nd Declensions and 3rd Declension: identical with the dative or ablative forms:


 * //Athenis//**, at Athens
 * //Carthagini//** or **//Carthagine//**, at Carthage