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instructive case

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

Syllables
in-struc-tive -case
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Inflected Forms

instructive cases (plural)

Phrases

instrumental case

Frequently Paired Words

instrumental case

Questions

What does instructive case mean?
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.

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