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noun:  (grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the dative case; present:
noun:  in Germanic:
noun:  in Old English
noun:  it has been continued by Modern English but at some point became the nominative absolute
noun:  in Old High German
noun:  in Middle Dutch less frequently than the genitive absolute
noun:  in Old Norse
noun:  in Gothic
noun:  in Old Church Slavonic
noun:  in Old East Slavic and due to Old Church Slavonic influence in Russian as late as the 18th century
noun:  in Lithuanian and Latvian

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