instructive cases

A form of instructive case — 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.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of instructive case
Cite this entry
APA

instructive cases. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instructive%20cases

MLA

“instructive cases.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instructive%20cases. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “instructive cases,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/instructive%20cases.

Source: instructive cases on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.