Meaning

1 senses
  1. A noun case used to express means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective. Languages that use the instrumental case include Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Georgian, Latvian, Slovene, Polish, Ukrainian, Quechua, Russian, Assamese, Tamil, Turkish and Sanskrit. Extinct languages that used the instrumental case include Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German.

    Instrumentalis, Instrumental-Kasus, Instrumental

    твори́тельный паде́жtvorítelʹnyj padéž

    орудний відмінокorudnyj vidminok

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The instrumental case is one of the most graceful aspects of the Russian language.

    ruТворительный падеж - один из наиболее изящных аспектов русского языка. — odexed

  2. Remember, in Polish, you need to put the predicate noun in the instrumental case.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
case to express agency or means:
Русский
By meaning 1
case to express agency or means:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
case to express agency or means:

Forms

plural: instrumental cases

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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