The ablative with certain verbs
A small group of verbs regularly take an ablative object. These include:
| the active verb | careo |
| the deponent verbs | utor, fungor, fruor, potior, vescor |
| the impersonal verb | opus est |
The master enjoys
much leisure time
which in Latin would be: dominus multo otio fruitur
or There is need of
food here
which in Latin would be: hic cibo opus est.
