instrumental case

English

Noun

instrumental case (plural instrumental cases)

(grammar) 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, Turkish and Sanskrit. Extinct languages that used the instrumental case include Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German.

Translations

case to express agency or means

Armenian: գործիական հոլով (hy) (gorciakan holov), գործիական (hy) (gorciakan)
Asturian: instrumental, casu instrumental
Belarusian: тво́рны склон m (tvórny sklon)
Bulgarian: твори́телен паде́ж m (tvorítelen padéž)
Carpathian Rusyn: інштрументал m (inštrumental)
Chechen: коьчалниг дожар (köčalnig dožar)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 工具格 (zh) (gōngjùgé), 具格 (zh) (jùgé)
Czech: sedmý pád m, instrumentál (cs) m
Danish: instrumentalis (da) c
Dutch: instrumentalis (nl)
Esperanto: instrumentalo (eo), ila kazo
Faroese: verkførisfall (fo), tólfall n, amboðsfall n
Finnish: instrumentaali (fi)
French: instrumental (fr) m, cas instrumental (fr) m
Galician: caso instrumental m
Georgian: მოქმედებითი (ka) (mokmedebiti), მოქმედებითი ბრუნვა (ka) (mokmedebiti brunva), ინსტრუმენტალი (insṭrumenṭali)
German: Instrumentalis (de) m, Instrumental-Kasus m, Instrumental (de) m, Womit-Fall m
Greek: οργανική (el) f (organikí), οργανική πτώση f (organikí ptósi)
Hungarian: eszközhatározó eset (hu), eszközeset, instrumentalis (hu)
Icelandic: tækisfall (is) n
Italian: caso strumentale m
Japanese: 造格 (ja) (ぞうかく, zōkaku), 具格 (ja) (ぐかく, gukaku)
Kalmyk: бүрдәгч киисквр (bürdägç kiiskvr)
Kazakh: көмектес септік (kömektes septık)
Korean: 조격 (ko) (jogyeok)
Latvian: instrumentālis (lv)
Lithuanian: įnagininkas (lt) m
Livonian: instrumentāl
Malay: kes instrumental
Middle Persian: ptš
Mongolian: үйлдэхийн тийн ялгал (üjldexiin tiin jalgal), үйлдэх (mn) (üjldex)
Norwegian: instrumentalis (no)
Polish: narzędnik (pl) m
Portuguese: caso instrumental m, instrumental (pt) m
Russian: твори́тельный паде́ж (ru) m (tvorítelʹnyj padéž)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: инструментал m

Roman: instrumental (sh) m
Slovak: siedmy pád m, inštrumentál (sk) m
Slovene: orodnik (sl) m
Spanish: caso instrumental m, instrumental (es) m
Swedish: instrumentalis (sv)
Telugu: తృతీయా విభక్తి (tr̥tīyā vibhakti)
Turkish: araç hâli (tr), araç durumu (tr), enstrümantal (tr)
Ukrainian: орудний відмінок (orudnyj vidminok)
Vietnamese: tạo cách

instrumental case

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Noun

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