English Explanatory Dictionary

instructive case

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

instructive case instructive cases

Related words

instrumental case
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