Complete Definition of "instructive case"

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Noun
instructive case

#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

Finnish: instruktiivi
French: instructif m
German: Instruktiv m
mid
Spanish: caso instructivo m
Swedish: instruktiv

See also
Appendix:Grammatical cases

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