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instructive case

instructive case noun: 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.

Noun

instructive case (plural instructive cases)

  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.

Forms of instructive case

pluralinstructive cases

Questions about instructive case

What does instructive case mean?
Instructive case means 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.
What part of speech is instructive case?
Instructive case is a noun.
What is the plural of instructive case?
The plural of instructive case is instructive cases.

Words near instructive case in the dictionary

  1. instructionally
  2. instructionals
  3. instructionless
  4. instructions
  5. instructive
  6. instructive case
  7. instructive cases
  8. instructively
  9. instructiveness
  10. instructives
  11. instructivism

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