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instructive cases

instructive cases is the plural of instructive case.

Meaning of instructive case

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.

Questions about instructive cases

What is instructive cases the plural of?
Instructive cases is the plural of instructive case.

Words near instructive cases in the dictionary

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

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