instructive case

== English == === Noun === instructive case (plural instructive cases) (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. ==== Translations ==== === See also === instrumental case Appendix:Grammatical cases