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instructive case

Noun

instructive case (plural instructive cases)

(grammar): noun case used to indicate means. It answers the question "how?", and in English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase by means of, as in "by means of the house". Languages that use the instructive case include Finnish and (rarely) Estonian.

Translations

case used to indicate means

Catalan: instructiu (ca) m
Estonian: viisiütlev (et), instruktiiv (et)
Finnish: instruktiivi (fi), keinonto (fi)
French: instructif (fr) m
German: Instruktiv m
Icelandic: tækisfall (is) n
Latvian: instruktīvs m
Livonian: instruktīv
Portuguese: instrutivo (pt) m
Russian: инструкти́в (ru) m (instruktív)
Spanish: caso instructivo m
Swedish: instruktiv (sv)

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