instructive case

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|grammar}}: 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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